In Angels' wins, Mike Trout has advanced himself &/or teammates one base when he &/or te

(Mike Trout after striking out looking with baserunners on 1st and 2nd base which ended the game on Monday in which the Athletics defeated the Angels 3-0. Photo credit: MLB.com Video)

Mike Trout this season through five games of the Major League Baseball regular season has a .211 batting average, .304 on-base percentage, .368 slugging percentage and a .673 on-base plus slugging percentage.

He has four hits in 19 total at bats, two walks (one of the two was intentional), one hit by pitch, and one sacrifice fly.

Trout has seven total bases this season in 23 total plate appearances.

He has three singles and one home run, two runs scored and four RBI’s.

All four of those RBI’s and one run came in Sunday’s loss to the Athletics in Oakland in which he hit a three-run home run (with runners on 1st and 2nd base) and had a sacrifice fly.

He singled and scored one run on Anthony Rendon’s two-run home run in the eighth inning of an Angels win on Tuesday night.

So Trout has largely been a non-factor so far this season in terms of run production where he has advanced him and his teammates a total of 11 bases when he and his teammates have scored runs from Trout’s hitting and sacrifice fly.

His single on Tuesday night in his fifth and final at bat is the only base he has advanced himself when he or his teammates have scored in an Angels’ victory so far this season.

Trout, in my opinion has scored two runs and contributed 2.75 runs via putting the baseball into play.

Those numbers aren’t great and definitely do not say Angels’ MVP for Trout (and definitely not American League MVP obviously) when the Angels have scored 21 runs so far this season in five games.

And I also need to mention that so far Trout has not scored a run this season when he has been walked or intentionally walked.

Trout’s OPS of .673 really can be re-written as .135, meaning that .673 divided by 5.000 (a maximum OPS) is .135.

He has advanced himself 10 bases in 23 plate appearances which is .435. However, the total amount of bases he could advance himself is 92 and so his OPS (just for himself) could be said as .109.

Trout has advanced him and his teammates 19 bases in 143 potential bases. So his real OPS (himself and his teammates) is .133. He has advanced his teammates alone a total of nine bases with 51 potential bases.

Trout’s True OPS is higher (.145) if we don’t penalize him for a walk, an intentional walk, or getting hit by a pitch. In that case, he had the potential to advance him and his teammates 131 bases.

With hits alone, Trout has advanced him and his teammates a total of 13 bases out of 118 potential bases (.110). Think of that like an advanced version of slugging percentage where I am counting all of the at bats and not the total plate appearances.

He also has struck out eight times this season with six of those swinging and the other two as called strike three.

Trout leads the Angels in strikeouts and Justin Upton (7) and Shohei Ohtani (5) are the other two Angels players who have struck out at least five times this season already.

With his strikeouts, he left a runner on 1st in Friday’s game; struck out looking on Saturday; left a runner on 1st on Sunday; struck out three times on Monday where he struck out twice swinging on Monday in which one instance was with a runner on 2nd in his first at bat and a runner on 1st in his second at bat, and he struck out looking in his fifth plate appearance to end the game with runners on first and second base with his team down 3-0 to the Athletics; and on Tuesday he struck out with runners on 1st and 3rd in his second at bat and a runner on 1st in his 3rd at bat.

Adding up all of those strikeouts, if Trout would have homered in every one of those at bats where he struck out, the Angels would have scored 15 additional runs in those games and would have won at least two additional games (maybe a third in extra innings for Sunday’s game) for a total record of at least 4 wins, 0 losses and 1 tie this season through five games.

What is very noteworthy is that if Trout would have homered on Opening Day, the Angels would have probably won that game 5-3 in nine innings instead of losing in ten innings 7-3.

Fortunately for Trout, he has hit into two double plays this season in which both of those games were Angels’ victories.

So the 2019 A.L. MVP needs to figure out how to get in a groove again offensively if the Angels (2-3) want to be a playoff team (if we will even finish the MLB Regular Season or even have any playoffs because of coronavirus or whatever else might happen).