TEMPE, Ariz. — Few people in baseball could tease Mike Trout about an unmet expectation. Tony Reagins, who drafted him for the Los Angeles Angels, has dared to try.
“I was telling him yesterday that I thought he was going to be a 25-home run guy and a 100-stolen base guy,” said Reagins, the Angels’ former general manager. “He said, ‘A hundred?’ But he used to steal bases so easily, and how we played the game was really aggressive.
“I really felt that he could do it. He started hitting home runs, and that stolen base game kind of went away.