With Lessons of Game’s Greats, Mike Trout Poised for Move from MVP to MLB Icon

TEMPE, Ariz. — How did Mike Trout celebrate his Most Valuable Player award?

With a trip to the hospital and an IV hookup. Followed by a week on the couch, sick as he can ever remember.

So the takeaway is, as the celebrated center fielder moves forward as the leader of the Angels and is cemented as one of the game's post-Derek Jeter pillars, a winter virus finally did what few pitchers have been able to accomplish.

It stopped this man of perpetual motion in his tracks.

"I didn't get off the couch for a week," says Trout, who was forced to call in sick ...

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