{"id":4281,"date":"2011-07-08T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2011-07-08T11:49:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T16:49:35","slug":"happy-mike-trout-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4281","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mike Trout Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is it about Fridays and MLB Debuts? On June 10 we celebrated Mike Moustakas Day<\/a> here at the Sombrero, and just one week later we celebrated Dustin Ackley Day<\/a>.\u00a0 Today we are thrilled to celebrate another prospect debut: Mike Trout.<\/p>\n

Ranked as The Golden Sombrero\u2019s No. 2 Prospect<\/a> headed into the 2011 season, Trout has done everything (and more) at Double-A to deserve the call to the Big Leagues.\u00a0 At the time of his promotion, the 19-year-old outfielder was slashing .324\/.415\/.534 with 12 doubles, 11 triples, nine home runs, 27 RBI and 28 stolen bases.<\/p>\n

However, like most Trout enthusiasts (namely MTD over at Off-Base Percentage<\/a>), none of us sincerely expected his arrival until this time next season \u2013 maybe a bit earlier.\u00a0 But after a hamstring injury to fellow speedster Peter Bourjos during last night\u2019s game, the door officially opened for Trout.<\/p>\n

So, to usher in the Mike Trout Era, here are several videos of the phenom in action from the last two years.\u00a0 I\u2019m now more excited about his debut than seeing Jeter collect his 3,000th<\/sup> hit (to an extent). Regardless, this is a great day to be a baseball fan.<\/p>\n

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And cue the celebratory tunes:<\/p>\n

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What is it about Fridays and MLB Debuts? On June 10 we celebrated Mike Moustakas Day here at the Sombrero, and just one week later we celebrated Dustin Ackley Day.\u00a0 Today we are thrilled to celebrate another prospect debut: Mike Trout. Ranked as The Golden Sombrero\u2019s No. 2 Prospect headed into the 2011 season, Trout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,9,11,13,10,14,1616,775],"tags":[618,1242,653,1342,1267,2431,1915,2107,3463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281"}],"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=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4284,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}