Five years ago, Mike Trout seemed like an automatic Hall of Famer. In the wake of his latest season-ending injury, you had to at least start to wonder about his chances.
It was Hall of Fame induction weekend a couple of weeks ago, and the Times’ Hall of Fame baseball writer reached out with a provocative question. “Is Mike Trout still an automatic Hall of Famer?” Ross Newhan asked me. Five years ago, you would have nodded so fast you might have resembled a bobblehead doll. On Thursday, when the Angels announced Trout would finish the season on the injured list because of a second meniscus tear in his left knee, you at least had to wonder.
“I can’t really imagine looking at what’s happened to him over the past several years and judging him so harshly that he would be deprived,” Jaffe said. “I could see him not being a unanimous selection or not being a 99.9% selection — maybe a 95% selection, because there are always some who think they should withhold their blessing, just as they do for anybody this side of Derek Jeter. “But I don’t think it’s going to be a real obstacle to his selection.
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