Mike Trout: does the world’s best baseball player finally have a supporting cast?

The Angels haven't had a winning season since 2015, despite the presence of their nine-time All Star. This year could be when things change though

Mike Trout has done so many wondrous things in nearly 11 full big-league seasons - 319 home runs, nine All-Star appearances, three American League Most Valuable Player awards among them - that it is hard to believe that he has but one career postseason hit. One.

That lonely hit, a bases-empty home run, came in the top of the first inning of a game on 5 October 2014 that the then-Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim would lose to the Kansas City Royals, 8-3, to get swept out of the American League Division Series in three games.