Mike Trout has worn the Rangers

Mike Trout's career is irrefutable proof that, no matter how good the baseball player, he can not carry the other 24 players in the playoff lineup. He can, however, spend four days making life miserable to an opposing team.

The Angels finished yesterday a four-game series against the Rangers, winning three wins in the set. They owe these three victories to Trout, who had one of the best courses in baseball history:

Trout went 6-in-11 with five homers, nine RBIs and five points scored. He managed to do all this damage despite relatively few opportunities to hit the ball. the Rangers generally stumbled around Trout, walking him six times in total and twice intentionally. There are a lot of things you can report on the Trout game and say, "That's what makes him the best baseball player I've ever seen," and one from among them is the fact that he can perform a dozen meritorious launches running a series in five circuits. In the fourth round of Saturday's game, Trout loaded the bases and showed what happens when the opposing thrower has no choice but to try to get him out:

The annual tradition of wondering if Mike Trout is on the way to the biggest season in baseball history seems to start earlier each year, and with good reason. Trout enters his 27-year season and has just finished a season in which his PSO reached a career high of 1.088. This is the trajectory of a player who is about to really get into his heyday, which is a scary thought given that not yet in his heyday, Mike Trout is already the best player of the league to a wide margin. What does his next step look like? Up to now, this looks like this: .393 / .581 / 1,000, five homers, 11 goals scored, 12 RBIs, 11 hits, three strikeouts.