KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mike Trout returned to his locker on Wednesday afternoon and his phone had blown up with texts from concerned friends and family members.
“I appreciate all the prayer requests, but my career isn’t over,” Trout said a few hours after news broke that he has a rare back condition, adding that “the last two days have been huge steps. I’m excited with the way it’s going. I’m happy with it.”
Trout was smiling throughout the interview, seemingly amused that the earlier report had spawned such “exaggeration.” He said people had inferred too much from the news that what the Angels had been calling a strained rib cage was more specifically a “costovertebral dysfunction at T5.”
