Mike Trout Is A Baseball Ninja And This Video Is Proof

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Mike Trout has been the best baseball player alive ever since he was called up to the majors full-time in April of 2012. It’s almost unfair that someone could be so good at every aspect of the game, and Trout seemingly has a brand new highlight play every week.

On Friday, we got the latest “Mike Trout is not human” play when the Angels outfielder stole a base against the Boston Red Sox. If you watch it in real time, you probably think that Red Sox catcher Blake Swihart’s throw to third base gunned down the reigning AL MVP, but Trout immediately told Angels manager Mike Scioscia that he needed to challenge a play. With the benefit of slow motion replay, it’s obvious that Trout used a swim move to get in with his hand, and when he slid to the point that his hand couldn’t stay on base anymore, he got his foot on the bag before he was tagged.

This is another play in a long line of plays that prove that Mike Trout is not from the same species as the rest of us. Based on his propensity for climbing up walls to make catches in the outfield (and this clip of him jumping onto a platform that is up to his chest), he’s probably a cat who learned how to hit. We’ll revisit this if he wins his second-straight MVP at the end of this season.