Angels famous person middle fielder Mike Trout underwent surgical procedure to restore torn meniscus in his left knee final week and he says he is already feeling higher. 

“I am feeling good,” Trout mentioned (through angels.com). “Surgical procedure went effectively. Simply taking it daily and feeling higher day-after-day, so it has been good. No timeline. Simply are available, rehab and hopefully it feels higher each single day, see the way it feels the following day and go from there.”

Estimates range on the timeline for a participant to return from torn meniscus surgical procedure. In some locations, you may see two or three months, however six weeks is an inexpensive, optimistic outlook. It is even potential {that a} participant might solely require three or 4 weeks. 

In Trout’s first interview with Angels beat reporters since his surgical procedure, he mentioned that he might have tried to play by way of the damage as a chosen hitter, however that choice carried with it the opportunity of additional injuring the knee. 

“It was an choice they put on the market,” Trout mentioned. “It might have been simply sustaining the ache degree of it. The day I bought the MRI and it confirmed that, I used to be in loads of ache, so it might have been a troublesome highway for the remainder of the 12 months to bear that. I felt the best choice for me was to get it proper and be absolutely wholesome to return again quickly.”

Trout, 32, was hitting .220/.325/.541 (140 OPS+) with a double, two triples, 10 homers, 14 RBI, 17 runs and 1.1 WAR in 29 video games this season earlier than taking place. He was the MLB chief in house runs when he was positioned on the injured record. The batting common is decrease than standard, however in any other case he was having one other Mike Trout-like season. 

Sadly, lately, a standard Trout season consists of accidents. He hasn’t performed greater than 140 video games since 2016 and hasn’t topped 120 since 2019. He appeared in 36 in 2021, 119 in 2022 and 82 final 12 months. Even with an optimistic outlook, as famous above, his return from this surgical procedure sees him lacking roughly 40 video games. Whereas he is nonetheless completely a Corridor of Famer, the accidents are carving into his probability to enter the higher stratosphere of baseball greatness. 

This is the reason it is nice to listen to that issues are going effectively for Trout to date within the aftermath of the surgical procedure.