regarding Mike Trout's season ending injury and the need for patients when evaluating trades the Athletics daily MLB newsletter is available here to get the windup delivered straight to your inbox sign up here Mike Trout is sidelined once more Ken advises us to be patient when evaluating trades and the World Series is there is also a lot of links in today's section and the baseball card of the week hi there this is Levi Weaver from the windup Ken Rose th is with me there's another meniscus tear on Mike Trout following yet another knee surgery he will miss the remainder of the Season what more is there to say noting how trout and Anthony renan have missed so much time in recent years I wrote about it back on May 1st since then trout has stopped playing renan has played 14 games in the interim he is also back on the injured list my mind has been circling the idea it always ends like a base changing hands as I sit here and consider how this news made me feel dot of course it does zoom out to see the game the season a dynasty and a career as we continue the shapes of the uncomfortable truths that we would rather keep hidden begin to emerge go back a little bit my understanding of great players and their careers's limitations has developed in a bell-shaped manner