{"id":790,"date":"2025-02-17T16:23:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:09:16","slug":"mike-trout-announces-position-change-with-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/mike-trout-announces-position-change-with-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Trout Announces Position Change With Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_442360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-442360\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-442360 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 01: Mike Trout #27 of the Los Angeles Angels looks on from the dugout during the first inning against the Colorado Rockies at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on August 01, 2024 in Anaheim, California. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/mike-trout-1024x683-1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-442360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Angels quietly had a nice little offseason for themselves by bringing in Jorge Soler, Kyle Hendricks, Yoan Moncada, Travis d\u2019Arnaud, and Kenley Jansen, and there is reason for excitement in SoCal for the first time in a while, even though Anthony Rendon is already on the 60-Day IL again.<\/p>\n<p>As nice as the offseason has been, none of it matters unless future Hall-of-Famer Mike Trout can stay healthy, and he recently announced a position change that should help him do just that.<\/p>\n<p>MLB Network shared a clip of Trout doing some press prior to Monday\u2019s Spring Training work.<\/p>\n<p>Trout announced that he will be moving to right field full-time this season, saying, \u201cI like it. We\u2019ll try it out. See where it goes. I just want to be on the field\u2026I\u2019m with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-script=\"true\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I just want to be on the field\u2026 I&#8217;m with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Trout announces he will be moving from center field to right field this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CxfgKJ8rG2\">https:\/\/t.co\/CxfgKJ8rG2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1rr8W15LAT\">pic.twitter.com\/1rr8W15LAT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBNetwork\/status\/1891507154558882067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trout added that he\u2019ll talk to former teammate and current Special Assistant to the General Manager Torii Hunter when he gets to camp since he made the same change to accommodate Trout playing center field back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Trout hasn\u2019t played in more than 140 games in a season since 2016 and hasn\u2019t played more than 82 games in four of the last five years, so keeping his bat in the lineup is the No. 1 priority for the Angels this season.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a shame how much of Trout baseball fans have been robbed of due to injuries in recent years, but he says he is healthy and feeling good in camp, so hopefully playing right field with some designated hitter mixed in can help him play his first full season in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/mike-trout-announces-position-change-with-angels\/\">Mike Trout Announces Position Change With Angels<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\">The Cold Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images) \u00a0 The Los Angeles Angels quietly had a nice little offseason for themselves by bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}