Mike Trout

On the record · career milestone this season

1,200 career runs scored — Sat, Mar 28 · night game vs. Houston Astros The scorecard → · The write-up →

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FlagshipMike Trout #1 · 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum · 134 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

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The rookieMike Trout #US175 · 2011 Topps Update · 1467 recent sales 7N ▼0.9%

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Scout’s note

Mike Trout has 426 home runs, 1,072 RBIs, and a career OPS of .963 — numbers built in Vineland, New Jersey, and refined over 1,790 major-league games since he was a 2009 first-round pick. At 35, the engine still sees the bat: an EV95 of 109.6 puts him ahead of 93% of qualified hitters, harder than almost anyone on this breakout board. But his luck gap of -0.0474 means his results on contact trail his exit speeds more than 92% of the sample, and a .242 average with 22 home runs in 142 games is, for him, a season of missing air. One MLB game in the last two weeks produced two strikeouts and a walk — no ball in play, no result to misread. The engine ranks him No. 15 of 20 on the breakout board, and the question isn't whether the power remains. It is whether the average comes back to meet it.

Note written Oct 10 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Trout is hitting the ball harder than 93% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 109.6; league median 105.8), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 92% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 15 of 20 on the breakout board.

OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

109.6

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0474

Overlay score

0.6184

WAR (season · MLB calc)

3.3

Balls in play

346

Sprint (ft/s)

28.6

Age

35

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.

2026 salary

$37.12M

Tax hit

$35.54M

Service time

15 yr 70 d

Guaranteed

$427M

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Los Angeles Angels.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$35.5M

Guaranteed

$426.5M

Term

12 yrs

His class

Extension

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

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