/ STAFF WRITER
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Remember all that talk in spring training and early in the season about how Mike Trout was not going to take so many first pitches this year?
On second thought ... no.
Last season Trout swung at the first pitch 10.6 percent of the time. This season, he has swung at the first pitch … 10.7 percent of the time.
Early in the season, Trout was living up to his vow to be more aggressive on the first pitch. Through the end of May, Trout swung at the first pitch 18 percent of the time.