📰 Media & Journalism 1d ago · Kathryn Xu

Mike Trout Starts Hitting, Is Rewarded With Fastballs Directed At His Chin

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Mike Trout Starts Hitting, Is Rewarded With Fastballs Directed At His Chin
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Watching an all-time great athlete fade into anonymity comes with a perverse sadness: a slow death on a public stage, with stakes that only matter because people have decided to lend it some fictive narrative purpose. In baseball, a sport that worships statistics if there were any, the feeling is at its worst while gritting through negative-WAR seasons and watching career batting averages tick below .300. Sometimes this comes with schadenfreude, with an athlete who was a particular terror back i

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