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Doc-san: Unlike the lucky souls at SSI, it's very unlikely Reiter wrote his own headline. In more heavily populated reporting rooms, writers very seldom do. Seldom here meaning almost never. I for one never had the pleasure. You frequently don't even get to title your own books.
In any event, the most common comp for Trout that I've seen is Mantle, who actually was signed as a shortstop and not expected to have eye-popping power. They have the same thick, muscular body, same blazing speed. I think Trout's a lock to hit 30-plus homers a year. (I'm more amazed that Mays did. Have you ever seen photos of the young Mays? He made Ichiro look bulked up.) Here's something that tells you about the difficulty of projecting baseball players. Trout will hit more homers in a year than Brandon Woods will in a career and Woods was the can't miss power hitter.
This is, obviously, bad news for Mariner fans. I'm thinking of a snatch job. We could take him out this winter in Jersey. It's Jersey - they won't even know he's gone.