The Angels may have done the baseball world a favor by preemptively extending Mike Trout to a 12 year, $430,000,000 contract instead of allowing him to hit the open market. The speculation and debate about where he would end up, and for how much money, would have dominated the entire offseason, as it did for Bryce Harper and Manny Machado this year. It does not do the A’s any favors, as it all but guarantees that the greatest player in baseball today, and perhaps in all of baseball history when all is said and done, will be in the AL West for his entire career.
Series #2: Athletics vs Angels - A Prayer to the Heavens for Good Health
