LA Angels Mike Trout named AL player of the month for April

The LA Angels 2017 season is only a month old, however center fielder Mike Trout is already in MVP form. The 2016 AL Most Valuable Player has already picked up his first award for the 2017 baseball season.

Mike Trout was named the AL Player of the Month for April. Trout slashed a .364/.443/.707 for the month for the LA Angels.  Trout also added 7 HR and 18 RBI.

It gets said in one way or another time and time again, that offensively  Trout again put the Angels on his back and carried them. And in many ways he did. Albert Pujols and Andrelton Simmons helped some, but much of the rest of the team struggled in the season’s first month.

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April’s award is the fouth of Trout’s young career, tying him with former Angels pitcher Chuck Finley. It is also the first time that an Angels player has won the award in the season’s first month since Brian Downing did it in 1987. That’s 30 years between Angels players taking home the player of the month award in the first month of action.

For the fun of comparison, Downing hit .352/.472/.761 to go along with 9 HR and 22 RBI in taking home the 1987 edition.

So how does this player of the month award compare to Trout’s previous three? Let’s look at it:

# 1 July 2012 – .392/ .455/ .804, 10HR, 23 RBI

#2 September 2014 – .361/ .471/ .759, 7 HR, 21 RBI

#3 July 2015 – .367/ .462/ .861, 12 HR, 24 RBI

Just in his four player of the month performances, the outfielder who can do it all has slugged 36 HR and driven in 82 runs. Not too bad for 4 months of work.

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Interestingly enough, last season  Trout did not win player of the month honors, but he brought home the AL MVP award. In a season that saw Trout  narrowly miss his first 30 HR-30 SB season, he still dominated enough to bring home the big gear.

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As Mike Trout tends to do, he continues to be up to Mike Trout type things. The twenty five year old is currently riding a 16 game hitting streak and in fact, Trout has 11 multi hit games on the season while only failing to get a hit in three games.