Long recognized as baseball's best player, the Angels' Mike Trout is hitting the ball an average of 95 mph this season, four mph harder than last year.
said when asked in spring training about Trout’s goal for the year. “Even the best players on the planet can improve. Then they become ‘best-er.’”It seemed on the surface like a ragtag collection of fallen prospects and on-the-way-out veterans. Angels general managerbelieved he had something better. In his view, he had assembled a relief corps that boasted powerful arms and bat-missing ability.Entering Sunday, the 2.
La Stella has started at second base in 12 of the Angels’ 15 games. The regularity has allowed him to find a better groove at the plate. Some unexpected power even emerged last week. He hit three home runs in two games. The home run balls were all crushed. They combined for 1,213 feet of distance. In back-to-back at-bats, he hit the longest homers of his career — one traveling 403 feet and the second 413.
La Stella is batting only .184, but three of his seven hits have left the yard. He rarely showed such pop in a Cubs uniform. So when he arrived at Wrigley and held court with members of the Chicago media corps, he couldn’t avoid the topic. They wanted to know whether the 30-year-old, who hit nine homers total from 2015 to 2018, had reinvented himself as a slugger.
“I don’t think so, but I’ll take it for the time being,” La Stella said. “It’s going to be cool while it lasts. It’s something I’m working to drive the ball a little more.”has a .345 on-base percentage in 15 games. That’s a 56-point improvement over last year. ... Despite a continued decline in fastball velocity, veteran relieverhasn’t given up a hit on his four-seam fastball. In fact, he has given up only one hit overall in 61/3 innings. It came off his curveball.
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