Best Player Alive Still Looking

This is not an argument. This is a fact that was true for a very long time and deserves a shirt.

There was a period, lasting approximately a decade, during which the answer to the question "who is the best baseball player alive" was Mike Trout. Not as a matter of debate. Not as one of several reasonable positions. As the answer, arrived at by anyone who examined the available evidence using any of the methodologies developed to answer that question, from the most traditional to the most analytically rigorous. He hit. He ran. He threw. He did all of these things at a level that placed him in a category that had very few other members, and he did it consistently, season after season, in a ballpark in Anaheim, California, where the crowds were smaller than they deserved to be given what was happening on the field, which was the best player alive playing baseball in the best possible way while the broader baseball conversation continued to discuss whether he was properly appreciated, which he was not, which is why this shirt exists.

The Trout Best Player Alive tee is for people who watched Mike Trout play baseball and understood what they were watching while they were watching it, which is the correct relationship to have with generational talent and which not enough people had. District DM130 Perfect Tri® Tee — featherlight, broken-in soft, and available in Black Frost, Red Frost, and White. Wear it as documentation. Wear it as acknowledgment. Wear it because the best player alive deserves at minimum a shirt that says so, and this is that shirt, and it is very comfortable, and the fabric construction is excellent, which is more than can be said for the organizational infrastructure around him during most of his peak seasons but we are not here to relitigate that, we are here to celebrate the player.

• 4.5 oz. — light enough for a fan who has been carrying the weight of watching the best player alive for years without receiving adequate recognition for this
• 50% polyester / 25% combed ring-spun cotton / 25% rayon — tri-blend construction as statistically dominant as Trout’s WAR totals across any rolling five-year window you choose to examine
• Rib-knit neck that holds its shape through seasons— plural, consecutive, all of them featuring Mike Trout being the best player alive
• Tear-away label — no irritation at the collar, which is refreshing given how irritating it has been to watch the best player alive not win a World Series
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping for a structured fit appropriate for someone who has done the research and arrived at a correct conclusion
• Available in Black Frost, Red Frost, and White — Angels red, for the player who made Angels red worth wearing

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