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Greatest Moments Baseball’s True Superstar Mike Trout, arguably the best player of this generation, is on a laser- fast trajectory to becoming one of baseball’s all-time greats. Check out this buffet of delicious honors the humble and hardworking Los Angeles Angels center fielder has accumulated since making his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2011: three American League Most Valuable Player (AL MVP) awards, an AL Rookie of the Year award, and a pair of All-Star Game MVP awards grabbed in back-to-back years. Plus, dig into these juicy, yet hard-to-fathom numbers: he’s hit 33 or more home runs (HR) in five different seasons; he’s led the majors in runs scored three times; during Trout’s rookie season he swiped a major league best 49 bases; he’s the youngest member in baseball history of the tough-to-crack 30-30 club (players who hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases in the same season); he’s the youngest player to hit for the cycle (collecting a single, double, triple, and home run in the same game) in AL history. And the list goes on.

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