“Don’t do this, Baseball Gods” Mike Trout diagnosed with a rare back condition, MLB career hanging by a thread
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Mike Trout is indeed a future Hall of Famer, with an exceptional list of individual accolades. His injury update has made a bad situation even worse as the fans might not be able to see Trout amaze them on the field thereafter. Mike Trout is a ten-time MLB All-Star, three-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) and an eight-time winner of the Silver Slugger Award.
Mike trout has not played a game since July 12 as he was then diagnosed with back spasms. Later. He was named a part of the injury list with a stated diagnosis of rib cage inflammation. Fans have not even been able to digest his injury list situation, Los Angeles Angels revealed that Trout has been diagnosed with a rare condition called “costovertebral dysfunction at T5.”
Los Angeles trainer Mike Frostad said, “This is a pretty rare condition that he has right now in his back. (Doctor Robert Watkins), one of the most well-known spine surgeons in the country, if not the world, doesn’t see a lot of these.”, per Angels beat writer Jeff Fletcher.
Injury Update on Mike Trout and his MLB future
Mike Frostad added, “For it to happen in a baseball player, we just have to take into consideration what he puts himself through with hitting, swinging on a daily basis just to get prepared and then also playing in the outfield, diving for balls. Jumping into the wall, things like that. And there’s so many things that can aggravate it, but this doctor hasn’t seen a lot of it. And he’s one of the best in the country.”
The update that genuinely blew out the ears of the fans was when Mike Frostad indicated that Mike Trout might not be able to continue and would have to see himself off duties, “Long-term, we do have to look at this as something that he (Mike Trout) has to manage not just through the rest of this season, but also through the rest of his career, probably,” Fletcher wrote.
30-year-old Mike Trout is in the middle of another impressive season, hitting .270 with a .368 on-base percentage and 24 home runs in 79 games. The Angels rely on Shohei Ohtani, Jared Walsh and Taylor Ward more heavily when Trout is side-lined.
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