Mike Trout suffers second torn meniscus, out for the remainder of the 2024 season

Mike Trout’s efforts to return from left knee surgery are officially a failure. 

According to reports, Trout suffered a torn meniscus in his knee for the second time this season and will not return in 2024. 

Two weeks ago, the Los Angeles Angels were thinking that Trout would be just days away from returning to the lineup after he was slated to begin a rehab assignment. 

It really couldn’t have gone any worse. After just two innings, Trout exited the game due to soreness in his surgically repaired left knee.

Mike Trout pulled from rehab assignment with soreness in surgically repaired left knee, will return to Anaheim for further evaluation

Mike Trout Out for Season

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— Mike Trout (@MikeTrout) August 1, 2024

The three-time MVP went on the injured list April 30 with a torn meniscus he suffered against the Philadelphia Phillies. It required surgery, resulting in yet another extended absence from Major League Baseball.

Trout played just 82 games last season after he was suffered a broken hamate bone.

A season prior, he spent five weeks on the injured list and in 2021, he missed most of the season with a strained calf muscle.

Trout has posted a dominant .951 OPS over 1133 plate appearances since Opening Day 2021 which includes 10 homers and a .220/.325/.541 slash line in 126 plate appearances this season.

Still, the injuries for Mike Trout continue to pile up. Between a right calf strain, back issues, a left hamate fracture, and now this knee surgery, he has played in only 266 of the Angels 648 games since the start of the 2021 season – an average of 66.5 per. 

In the games he’s played, he has a .951 OPS with 76 home runs (46 HR per 162 games).

Mike Trout – Following All-Star Break (Games Played)

• 2021: 0
• 2022: 40
• 2023: 1
• 2024: 0

The Los Angeles Angels have reached the playoffs just once during the past 11 years and the team hasn’t posted a winning season since 2015. This year was no different. The Angels are 47-62 on the season and far out of reach of any type of postseason position. 

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