I am tired of the media and r/baseball and fans of all the other teams taking shots at the guy. Everyone thinks that the guy doesn’t care about winning a ring and is happy to take vacations every October. We have all heard the jokes and seen them posted on that subreddit. The thing is it’s the exact opposite, Trout is SO COMPETITIVE that he wants to win a ring with us. He loves our fanbase, and he wants to help this team win a WS badly. Every time a reporter asks him if he wants to demand a trade he says no and that he wants to win with the young core coming up. Look I get the arguments that if we traded him we would have been able to build our farm system but let’s be real Arte would have squandered that opportunity anyway. At this point we gotta be happy we have someone as great as Trout wanting to stay loyal to us. Weaver on the talking points YouTube channel said Trout wants to win a ring with us and that he finds all the talk about him ridiculous. Ohtani made his decision and honestly as vocal as I have been about my sadness and anger of him picking the Dodgers, I do understand why he did it and all power to him. However, like I genuinely think Trout is the greatest Angel of all time and always will be. He is still a better Angel than Ohtani ever was and this isn’t me trying to bury Ohtani its just the truth the guy had a 10 year peak of being a top 5 MVP candidate since he was 20 as a rookie in 2012. The guy has an 82.6 bWAR and an 85.7 career fWAR with us. 24 other fanbases would KILL to have a player like Trout be loyal to their team like he has been with us so why are people especially in our fanbase trashing the guy for sticking by us? I get why we are pessimistic about the franchise right now trust me I am also a bit of a doomer sometimes, but we gotta cheer for the young guys we got, every interview they have given us is them saying they want to win a ring for our fanbase and Trout especially. I hate Arte as much as everyone here, but hey the Bengals have one of the worst owners in sports history and they almost won a SB in 2021 with Burrow. Hell even Dean Spanos the owner of the Chargers finally put in effort and got Harbaugh and spent his ass off to try and finally win a ring. If anything the Chargers fanbase and the media clowned him into becoming more competent so we just gotta do the same with Arte.