[情報] Mike Trout被提名為SI年度運動員
Trout好像是棒球界的代表...
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Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec.
3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.
It is not at all difficult to make a quantitative argument that Mike Trout,
the rookie centerfielder for the Los Angeles Angels, ought to be SI's
Sportsman of the Year for 2012. His numbers, most of which he compiled before
he turned 21 years old in August, were remarkable enough to stagger
absolutely everyone who cares about such things; proof that there is at least
one piscine phenomenon in the world that can lead the statistical community's
traditionalists and its progressives to lay down their rods in awe.
He batted .326, he hit 30 home runs with 83 RBIs, he scored a league-leading
129 runs and he stole a league-leading 49 bases on 54 attempts. According to
the website Baseball Reference, his Wins Above Replacement (10.7) was the
best for any player since Barry Bonds -- his veins pulsing with performance
enhancing drugs -- posted back-to-back seasons of 11.6 in 2001 and '02. Had
the Angels not dallied until late April in calling him up from Triple-A,
Trout's WAR might well have exceeded 12.1, placing him in the company of one
other man: Babe Ruth. Had the Angels not dallied, they might well have made
the playoffs, and who knows where Trout would have taken them from there. (On
Monday, Trout was the unanamous pick as the youngest AL rookie of the year
winner.)
I believe that now and then an athlete emerges from a season with numbers so
extraordinary that he or she could be named Sportsman of the Year based upon
them alone, and that such is the case with Mike Trout in 2012. But anyone who
watched Trout play this year, for any length of time, knows that the strength
of his candidacy extends far beyond his virtually unprecedented statistical r
ésumé.
You couldn't help but take notice of his talents -- his ludicrous speed, his
precocious strength -- but what was truly special about him was something
more than that, something more rare. It was the relentlessness with which he
deployed his gifts, and the sheer and obvious pleasure he derived from
deploying them. His exploits not only amazed us. They seemed to amaze him,
too, in a way that was entirely genuine.
Watching Trout play was like being treated each night to the best moment of
every superhero movie, the montage that always comes, ten or so minutes in,
in which our protagonist first comprehends the potential of his newly
acquired powers, and then starts to test himself, before any villain has
arrived, merely to see what he can do. Can he propel himself almost entirely
over an outfield wall to steal a home run away from a batter, who has already
begun to trot? Yes, he can. Can he generate a run for the Angels by virtue of
only his fearless aggressiveness on the base paths, without the luxury of a
hit? He can do that too. What's next?
Mike Trout in 2012, in other words, was the embodiment of joy and of
possibility, and for many people the experience of watching him play was not
just intellectually satisfying -- so that's where those numbers come from --
but deeply emotional, too. Professional scouts are paid to dispassionately
analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the hundreds of players they watch
each year, but every one I talked to about Trout this season couldn't help
but describe not just what he made him think, but what he made him
[ital.]feel[ital.].
"He plays the game like everybody remembers playing it when they were a kid -
he just enjoys it," said one, in a feature about Trout I wrote for SI.com in
July.
After that story was published, I received an e-mail from a man whose father
was dying of cancer. Each night this summer, father and son would watch Trout
play for the Angels on TV, the father outside on his deck, soaking up as many
twilights as he had left, the son at home. Afterwards, they would call each
other. They would talk about whatever absurd feat Trout had pulled off that
evening, and how the joy with which he had done it had reminded them of their
own love for baseball, and of the connection it had given them during their
time together. More often than not, the man wrote, they would cry.
Mike Trout was only just a rookie, and he in all likelihood has plenty of
time left to have all sorts of awards bestowed upon him, a future Sportsman
of the Year among them. But you never know what can happen. There is no
reason to wait. He is, at 21, not just a young athlete who has the potential
for greatness within him. He is one who is already, simply, great.
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