On the heels of a historically-great 2012 season in which he finished as a runner-up to Miguel Cabrera in the AL MVP race, Angels outfielder Mike Trout started off 2013 very slowly. Through the first ten games, he was hitting .227 with 12 strikeouts in 47 plate appearances. He would proceed to have multi-hit games in six out of his next seven games and hasn’t stopped lighting the American League up since.
Trout credits Albert Pujols for his early-season recovery, tweets Buster Olney:
Trout says that in midst of his early-season struggles,he and Pujols compared video of Trout ’12/'13. Lowered his stance;has hit much better
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) May 12, 2013
Pujols hasn’t had the same success, unfortunately. Dealing with plantar fasciitis in his left foot, Pujols enters tonight’s game against the White Sox hitting .239 with a sub-.600 OPS in the month of May. The 33-year-old is in the second year of a ten-year, $240 million contract with the Angels.
