Mike Trout Is in the Midst of What Could Be the Saddest MLB Season of All-Time

When we look back on Mike Trout's career in 25 years, I think it's mostly just going to make people sad. This guy is one of the 15? 25? greatest hitters of all-time and I don't see his career postseason at-bat count of 12 going up as long as he's on the Angels.

Trout leads Major League Baseball in home runs this season with 10. He has a total of 13 RBI. That would be hard to do if you were only getting RBI just from the homers and yet that's where Trout sits for the season as a whole. Someone please save this man before it's too late.

Trout will be 33 years old in August. He's played an average of 79 games each of the last three seasons. It's not a given that we have more than a couple years left of Trout being close to the guy he's been for most of his career.

Maybe he's content to just waste away in Anaheim and pay 12 percent in state income taxes on his $37 million a year — and given that he's still there, that seems more likely than not. But while he's still the Mike Trout we've all seen be one of the best players in baseball for a decade, can we please get this guy on a contender?

Cleveland would become one of the most fascinating teams in baseball if it added Trout. Milwaukee's offense would be nasty. The Cubs could have one of the best outfields in baseball. Anything but letting one of the best players of a generation live out his days in purgatory.

I want the best for Mike Trout. His current existence is just too sad to watch.