PHOENIX — One thousand and fifty-three players have appeared in a major league postseason game over the past eight years. The best player in baseball is not among them.
Mike Trout is Olivier without a stage, Tiger without a major, Spielberg without an audience. Magnificence without an echo.
The World Baseball Classic does not reverberate with history quite like the floorboards of Carnegie Hall. It is not the World Series. But say this about the humble international soapbox that it is: It is elevating Trout’s status among his awed fellow stars on Team USA as an amazing talent, and it is giving Trout the rare opportunity to play meaningful baseball.
