25-08-2020 03:00 via ocregister.com

Mike Trout is working on his defense, thanks to Twitter

Mike Trout’s outfield reads became somewhat of a trending topic among baseball fans and media on Twitter last Friday.
Among those who were paying attention: Trout himself.
According to MLB’s Statcast technology, Trout’s “jump” on balls hit to the outfield ranks among the bottom 1 percent of outfielders. Statcast divides “jump” into three components: reaction (feet covered in the first 1.5 seconds after a ball is hit), burst (feet covered from 1.6 to 3 se
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