Mike Trout Sends A Heartwarming Gift To Fan Who Tried To Correct His Swinging Form

Sometimes your heroes over-deliver. With Mike Trout, that has been true more times than not. Though, this time Trout took it a notch further; he didn’t just deliver on the field beyond his expectations; he delivered off it too. Earlier this week, the Evansville Devils Twitter account had corrected the former MVP’s bat swing, adding their own analysis to it. They were missing one crucial detail, though. They were unaware it was Mike Trout they were critiquing. Despite that, Trout took it all in a friendly spirit, even tweeting to the account later in the week.

The Evansville Devils Twitter account often takes to the site to talk about clips of players on the site. And in this case, they were just doing what their account set out to do. After having gone through the complete exercise of describing how the swing was inaccurate, other Twitter users stepped in to inform them of the true identity of the Anaheim Angel. Immediately regretful, the account apologized to the player; but the ever graceful Mike Trout went above and beyond. He, in fact, promised some solid gear to the account for the work that they were doing.

Mike Trout’s Response

Mike Trout is such a fan favorite for a reason. He is easily one of the best at fan interactions and this week he proved to us why. After the Evansville Devils account has received considerable flak online for its critique of Mike Trout’s swing and the subsequent retraction, Trout came to their rescue.

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In a subsequent tweet, Trout quoted the tweet in an account and exclaimed how glad he was that there was someone out there concerned for young players’ game development. He wrote, “Gotta appreciate you caring about kids and the game”.

And in a move you would not have expected from any other player, he also asked to be DM’ed an address, so he could send over some quality gear to the club.

This wasn’t just any ordinary gear either; Trout captioned, he would send over some quality Old Hickory Bats the ball club’s way, even tagging their account in the tweet.

Evansville Devils react back

The account was clearly overjoyed at such a mention from the top player; even putting together a thread of tweets to thank the athlete for his gifts.

The account sure was glad that Trout had taken it so well. The account put out a tweet to draw the full story to a conclusion stating, “Mike Trout is a phenomenal man, and one of the best to ever lace them up, and he has gained a lifetime fan.”

As best we can tell, Trout certainly has gained over one-lifetime fan from this entire episode. The Twitter world has seen just how well Trout has handled the whole scenario. And while rare for players to be this way, it’s clear for all to see how players can be with their fans.

The Evansville account perhaps put it best- “There’s a lesson in this for my guys and a few others out there in the world. Be humble, be kind..”.