If you know anything at all about professional baseball, you know who Mike Trout is. Unanimously considered the best position player in today’s game, Trout somehow raises the bar every year to become even better than the legendary year previous. It’s uncanny how he continues to develop.

Saying that, the development had to start somewhere, and he’s come a long way since getting selected with the 25th pick of the 2009 draft.

Trout first entered the league in 2011 when he played 40 games sporting a subpar batting average of .220. That was enough to apparently earn him a bad scouting report in MLB The Show, one that is quite amusing to look back on now.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mike Trout&#39;s scouting report from MLB the Show 2011 aged TERRIBLY. <br><br>(📸: /r/baseball) <a href="https://t.co/7AByPoPlwX">pic.twitter.com/7AByPoPlwX</a></p>&mdash; Baseball is Fun (@flippingbats) <a href="https://twitter.com/flippingbats/status/1252609259877085185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

The very next season Trout would steal 49 bases during his Rookie of the Year campaign, while raising his batting average to .326 and earning his first of seven Silver Slugger awards and finishing second in the MVP vote, a vote he’s only finished out of the top three one time in his career when he was limited to 114 games. He finished fourth that year.

While we aren’t going to scoff at some video game worker tossing a scouting report into the game that didn’t pan out accurately, it’s still amusing to see just how far Trout has come.

(H/T: r/baseball)