FANALYTICS: Mike Trout vs the World

If you haven't heard by now, Mike Trout didn't regress much last year. While certain surface stats did tail a little—most notably stolen bases—his overall performance was pretty much on par with 2012. In some ways, it was even better.

At this time last year, I offered up more than a dozen points arguing for the massive regression that didn't happen. I took a good amount of heat for my dire expectations. But I went through an extensive post-mortem in this year's Baseball Forecaster, explaining how it all went off the rails. I filed an official mea culpa during First Pitch Arizona. I'll probably repeat that performance in the spring forums that begin in a few weeks.

But that's all old news now. The more important question is, what can we...

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