{"id":1847,"date":"2010-11-13T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2010-11-13T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:29:51","slug":"mike-trout-takes-batting-practice-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1847","title":{"rendered":"Mike Trout Takes Batting Practice (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels selected outfielder <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;id=trout-001mik\">Mike  Trout<\/a><\/strong> with the 25th overall pick in the first round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft.\u00a0 Before the 2010 season, Baseball America ranked Trout as the #3 prospect within the Angels&#8217; organization, and 85th overall.\u00a0 At just 18-years old, Trout hit .341 with six home runs, 28 doubles, 39 RBI, and 56 stolen bases, while splitting time between Cedar Rapids and Rancho Cucamonga.\u00a0 Additionally, he exhibited excellent plate disciple, drawing 73 walks and striking out 85 times in 508 at-bats.\u00a0 Here is a video of Trout &#8212; who will likely be named one of baseball&#8217;s top prospects prior to the 2011 season &#8212; taking batting practice as a member of Team USA:<\/p>\n<p><center><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 480px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H2XPU1-uCA8?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed style=\"height: 390px; width: 480px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H2XPU1-uCA8?version=3\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels selected outfielder Mike Trout with the 25th overall pick in the first round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft.\u00a0 Before the 2010 season, Baseball America ranked Trout as the #3 prospect within the Angels&#8217; organization, and 85th overall.\u00a0 At just 18-years old, Trout hit .341 with six home runs, 28 doubles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,9,11,13,10,775],"tags":[1268,25,653,1267,1269,1253,1270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}