Michael Nelson Trout is a 10 x MLB All-Star, 3 x AL MVP American League Most Valuable Player (2014, 2016, and 2019), and is a nine-time winner of the Silver Slugger Award. The Angels selected Trout in the first round of the 2009 MLB draft. He won the 2012 AL Rookie of the Year Award unanimously.
Trout's athleticism on the field has received praise from both the mainstream media and sabermetricians. He is regarded as one of the most outstanding young players in the history of baseball, as well as one of the best current players in all of MLB. Trout led the American League in wins above replacement (WAR) in each of his first five full seasons (according to Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference.com). Trout has led the American League in runs (2012–14, 2016) and times on base (2013, 2015–16, 2018) four times. As of February 2021, he leads all active major league ballplayers in career slugging percentage (.582) and on base plus slugging (1.000) and was second in career on base percentage (.418) and stolen base percentage (84.45%).