Before Trout took the field for the Angels' home opener against Boston on Friday night, he said he's eager to start running wild on the bases again — and manager Ron Washington is willing to see it happen.
broke into the majors as a true five-tool player who stole 49 bases during his first full season with the
“I think 20-plus would be cool,” Trout said when asked how many bases he would like to steal. “Thirty would be really fun.” “I think if you’re out there holding back a little, I think sometimes it puts you in a worse position,” Trout said. “I’m not saying that’s what happened , but I feel like if I want to steal a base, I can steal a base, and Wash gave me the go-ahead. Looking back at the managers I had before, if I them I wanted to steal some bags, I would have. They wouldn’t have minded it. But it wasn’t like a game plan we had before. So the last three, four years, it hasn’t really worked.
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