Twitter Fan Tries To Correct Mike Trout’s Swing Technique, LA Angels Star Reacts

We see a lot of armchair activism these days. Sometimes even armchair critiquing. All of us have done it. Seen a pitch on TV and said he shouldn’t have swung at that. Or there’s no reason to see that pitch. It was clearly a strike. Thankfully, though, when you do it offline, you only risk offending your family and not Mike Trout. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said about Twitter. As one account on Twitter found out, sometimes when you correct somebody’s swing and technique, that someone turns out to be Mike Trout. The Evansville Devils’ Baseball account was one of those today.

Mike Trout is easily one of the best players that Major League Baseball has churned out recently and certainly if there is one thing you would not like to critique, it is his swing. And yet, in an interaction, the account found a way to find faults in the swing indicated by Mike Trout.

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However, in a subsequent tweet, he really owned up to his own fault and even apologized for the same. Showing that if people were here for the Mike Trout “fiasco,” then they might as well check out the team while they were there.

Evansville coach checks Mike Trout’s Swing

The Evansville Devils Baseball account was doing its usual thing. Giving out hitting advice based on Twitter videos and comments that it was receiving on the site. It seemed like a nuanced and critical take on the finer qualities of the swing. It was certainly a detailed analysis with enough jargon to keep a coach occupied for a few minutes. And everything would’ve likely been alright, save for one important detail. They were critiquing Mike Trout.

After going on, a complete explainer of how the swing could give you one contact point through the zone and that would only be conducive for a specific type of hit. The account stated their preference and wrote that they would much rather, “have a high average line drive hitter over a 150 avg hitter who gets a home run every once in a while.”

If it’s any solace, at least they didn’t spend too much time being embarrassed. The account was immediately made aware that it was actually Mike Trout’s swing he was critiquing. Swiftly recanting their statement, the account admitted that they were unaware that it was Mike Trout they were critiquing.

However, all’s well that ends well and in that sense, the Evansville Devils gained traction out of the whole incidence. Even addressing the actions in a subsequent tweet.