![]() Nolan Arenado, just one season away from the open market when he new contract with the Rockies, had more leverage relative to his own abilities. It’s important to bear in mind that he was still two years shy of free agency, which he’d have reached at 29 years of age owing to his earlier contract. Viewed in that light, there’s an argument to be made that this deal actually underpays Trout - perhaps by a significant amount. Others have approached and even bettered Trout in single seasons - somehow, he has only twice been awarded the American League Most Valuable Player award - but none of his contemporaries has maintained anything approaching his unfathomably consistent level of top-end output. Since his first full season of play, in 2012, the peerless center fielder has vastly outproduced every other player in the game with a tally of 64.2 fWAR and 63.8 rWAR. But the salary numbers pale in comparison to Trout’s own productivity on the ballfield. In all likelihood, he and the deal will still be with the Halos at that time. The new agreement will not include any opt-outs, per Shaikin ( via Twitter), and provides Trout with full no-trade protection, Bob Nightengale of USA Today adds on Twitter.įrom one perspective, it’s a record-setting contract befitting Trout’s status as a player of historic excellence. ![]() Trout will turn 39 during the final season (2030) of his new contract. Trout stands to earn $36MM in each of those ten seasons. The deal leaves in place his preexisting $33.25MM salaries for the 2019-20 seasons, which he agreed to under a previous extension that was also negotiated by agent Craig Landis. Trout will be promised $360MM in new money over a ten-year term, according to reports from Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times ( on Twitter) and Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register. March 19: The Angels are nearing agreement on a record-setting contract with superstar outfielder Mike Trout, according to ’s Jeff Passan. Regardless of the exact structuring, the bottom-line numbers haven’t changed Trout will be paid a total of $426.5MM over the next dozen years, effectively making the contract a 10-year, $360MM extension on top of the $66.5MM he was already set to earn in 2019-20. The Orange County Register’s Jeff Fletcher tweeted today that it is technically being structured as a new 12-year deal and that the Angels have discussed moving some of the money he’s owed in 2019-20 back into the 2021-30 portion of the deal. The contract was announced as a 12-year deal, though that term also includes the two years for which he was already under contract. March 20: The Angels have formally announced Trout’s extension. ![]() March 21: Trout will make $36MM in 20 before earning $35.45MM annually over the remainder of the contract, Bill Shaikin of the L.A.
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