Mike Trout’s reign as the best player in baseball has been characterized by a stability that borders on tedium. There has been no drama, little debate, hardly any disturbance. Do a Google News analysis of “Mike Trout best player baseball”—perhaps as close as you can get to an objective history of the concept—and see that the idea first came up in 2012, his rookie year, when the question was simply if he had been the best in this specific season. (Ultimately, baseball decided that he had not, instead giving the AL MVP to Miguel Cabrera.
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