Eliot Shorr-Parks joined Joe Giglio and Hugh Douglas on the 94WIP Midday Show to defend his take that, "Mike Trout is the most overrated athlete of al-time," a take ESP tweeted during last night's World Baseball Classic.
"Mike Trout is the most overrated athlete of all-time," Shorr-Parks said on Wednesday. "What other athlete that we consider potentially the best to play their sport has accomplished as little as Mike Trout? Every great athlete we expect to win, we expect to be great in big moments, we expect to be the ones to carry their team, to step up when it matters. Mike Trout has no signature career moment. He has three MVPs that frankly don't matter in the history of baseball. This idea that he's an all-time great player, he's not. He has to do it in great moments."
"He's known more in October for sitting in cushy seats at the Linc than he is for playing in playoff games," Giglio agreed.
Shorr-Parks actually tweeted his take before the 31-year-old Vineland, NJ native struck out (on three swinging strikes) against his teammate Shohei Ohtani to end the World Baseball Classic Championship, a 3-2 USA loss to Japan.
Trout is a 10-time All-Star, 3-time MVP, 3-time All-MLB first-team, 2-time All-Star Game MVP, 9-time Silver Slugger and truly one of the greatest players to ever play the game.
However, to ESP's point, Trout is just 1-12 in three postseason games throughout his entire career. He has remained loyal to the Angeles and in 2019 he signed a 12-year, $426 million deal to likely remain in Los Angeles for his entire career.
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