Mike Trout SHOULD NOT Get Benched

This Daily is a follow-up to the recent post by Chris Colabello, The First Week Doesn’t Define My Season. I take a look at Spring Training numbers compared to how players are performing in the Regular Season. One obvious observation is that Mike Trout definitely, absolutely, positively should NOT be benched.

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