Mike Trout pose to be MLB's next GOAT and about to miss his 5th straight playoffs in a row....

[10bandz]

Bonds got destroyed for coming up short in the postseason. The Mariners not winning isn’t solely on Griffey the way it isn’t on Trout but you’re excusing one and not the other.

The fact of the matter is that Mike Trout doesn’t have much around him offensively and nothing on their staff. As I’ve said many a time before, their best pitcher is their DH! How fukked up is that?

Mike Trout gets shytted on but for different reasons. You can’t deny him on the field though. You just can’t. He’s everything we wish Bryce Harper was. We just wish he had Harper’s personality though.

Exactly. We're fukking trash. We trade for guys like Zach Greinke and then are too cheap to keep him because we wanna spend the money on offensive stars who end up flopping. We abandoned our principles that held us down in the 2000s (our most successful decade easily).

And then when Mike retires we go get Brad Ausmus instead of someone big time. fukking pathetic.

 

[ISO]

Ruth can't be considered the GOAT off of the strength of MLB being a segregated league when he played.

Yeah but he’s like Jordan a big time cultural icon

He got movies, books, and candy bars and shyt named after him felt like he transcended the sport. Not many athletes are known after 100 years. Also his numbers as a hitter and pitcher are beasty (who can say they dominated at both) even tho he played in a segregated league.

He wasn’t either like most of the cacs of his time so I respect him

 

[Buckeye Fever]

My nikka, for real. I'll rather watch Yelich. That nikka is exciting to watch. He just got an aura about himself. Even Bellinger got a swag that all of the Dodgers feed off of. Yung Joc Peterson, Muncy, Seager's and the gang. Even the coach got that same swag. It's fun to watch the Dodgers. It's not fun to watch Trout. Even his home runs are swagless. Acuna got so much energy and swag. You just see it on other players. All the nikkas on the team rocking gold chains and shyt. Everybody happy af. Dansby swagged the fukk out. It's fun to watch this shyt.

Damn, that's the same way I feel about Yelich

He is one of those "must see" baseball players

 

[Piff Huxtable]

Baseball equivalent of Mitch Richmond on the Kings

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

When does Bonds claim to have started using?

His numbers didn’t really take off until he was 25. Hard to consider a guy who juiced to the point he was on base like 60% of the time and was hitting 70 homeruns in a year the greatest dude cheated his ass off

Gotta go with Babe Ruth or Willie Mays or Hank Aaron as G.O.A.T.’s over him

Yeah but he’s like Jordan a big time cultural icon

He got movies, books, and candy bars and shyt named after him felt like he transcended the sport. Not many athletes are known after 100 years. Also his numbers as a hitter and pitcher are beasty even tho he played in a segregated league.

He wasn’t either like most of the cacs of his time so I respect him

Pretty much all the metrics have Ruth at the top of the list and he was a great postseason player too both in the box and on the mound. Aaron also was, but the sample size for him is much smaller unfortunately. Willie hit 1 postseason homer after 660 in the regular season. As great as he was, that can't compare to Ruth or Aaron. His postseason batting average was .247 with a .323 OBP and a .337 slugging percentage.

 

[23Barrettcity]

baseball fans aren't brainwashed like you nba nikkas. David stern and his clever marketing has ya'll thinking a teams accomplishments is all due to one player...that winning solidifies a career.

it takes more than one guy in the MLB. For instance you can have great hitting like the marlins 5 years ago but if you dont have a pitching staff it doesnt matter.

Hey baseball media started this as well when they wanted to shyt on arod for his postseason numbers . They even shyt on price for his terrible era in the playoffs . Playoff baseball does mean something as the goal for baseball is to win the ws and deep playoff runs not war titles

 

[#1 pick]

Bonds got destroyed for coming up short in the postseason. The Mariners not winning isn’t solely on Griffey the way it isn’t on Trout but you’re excusing one and not the other.

The fact of the matter is that Mike Trout doesn’t have much around him offensively and nothing on their staff. As I’ve said many a time before, their best pitcher is their DH! How fukked up is that?

Mike Trout gets shytted on but for different reasons. You can’t deny him on the field though. You just can’t. He’s everything we wish Bryce Harper was. We just wish he had Harper’s personality though.

100% but for me, this doesn't cover the other teams he has had

 

[23Barrettcity]

Exactly. We're fukking trash. We trade for guys like Zach Greinke and then are too cheap to keep him because we wanna spend the money on offensive stars who end up flopping. We abandoned our principles that held us down in the 2000s (our most successful decade easily).

And then when Mike retires we go get Brad Ausmus instead of someone big time. fukking pathetic.

Your not trash you just aren’t good . Your not too far from being a 80 win plus team

 

[23Barrettcity]

Exactly. We're fukking trash. We trade for guys like Zach Greinke and then are too cheap to keep him because we wanna spend the money on offensive stars who end up flopping. We abandoned our principles that held us down in the 2000s (our most successful decade easily).

And then when Mike retires we go get Brad Ausmus instead of someone big time. fukking pathetic.

Your not trash you just aren’t good . Your not too far from being a 80 win plus team

 

[Miggs]

Trout is the most boring superstar of all time,every thing about him is completely

 

[10bandz]

Your not trash you just aren’t good . Your not too far from being a 80 win plus team

yeah u right....im just exaggerating because i've been generally disgusted at how we've been wasting Trout's career

signing Ohtani was a good move though, hopefully he's back better than ever as a pitcher

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

He's one man in a sport where one man can't take over a game.

I also think that pointing to championships in baseball as a determination for who is the G.O.A.T. makes even less sense than it does in other sports for this reason. You can point to WAR and UZR if you want to make a case for who the G.O.A.T. candidates are, at least among hitters (excepting DH, of course).

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

baseball is way different than other team sports in terms of the ability/expectation of star players being able to affect the performance of their teammates.

mods, close thread

 

[#1 pick]

He's one man in a sport where one man can't take over a game.

I also think that pointing to championships in baseball as a determination for who is the G.O.A.T. makes even less sense than it does in other sports for this reason. You can point to WAR and UZR if you want to make a case for who the G.O.A.T. candidates are, at least among hitters (excepting DH, of course).

So do you think Trout should be a potential GOAT. Better than Bonds or Griffey Jr?

 

[Michael's Black Son]

People already calling him the goat


shyt makes no sense to me when literally every sport we mention, To be considered as a legit goat you have to have a championship

shyt is ridiculous because even in the Babe Ruth days you had to win to be put in that conversation. Ruth was basically the first sports superstar but him being a winner and hitting home runs like crazy made him that GOAT at that time.

Trout puts up numbers for a team that isn’t doing shyt and in a trash division that is basically another version of the NL West and AL East. WTF would he do in the AL East where you have to win all the fukking time early in the season or your season is over.