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SPORTS Wednesday 20 March 2019
AP source: Trout, Angels close to record $432M, 12-year deal

By RONALD BLUM Progress toward an agree-
AP Baseball Writer ment was first reported by
Mike Trout is on the verge ESPN.
of becoming baseball’s first Whether Trout’s contract is
half-billion dollar man. the largest in the world for
Trout and the Los Angeles a team athlete is difficult to
Angels are close to finaliz- determine. Forbes estimat-
ing a $432 million, 12-year ed Lionel Messi earned $84
contract that would shat- million from Barcelona in
ter the record for the larg- 2017-18 and Cristiano Ron-
est deal in North American aldo $61 million from Real
sports history, a person fa- Madrid, but precise details
miliar with the negotiations of their contracts are not
told The Associated Press. known.
The deal was disclosed Trout’s deal would include
Tuesday by a person fa- a signing bonus and su-
miliar with the negotia- persede the $144.5 million,
tions who spoke to the AP six-year contract that had
on condition of anonymity been set to pay him $33.25
because the agreement million in each of the next
had not been finalized. The two seasons.
contract was likely to be While the marketplace has
announced by the end of been slow for many play-
this week, the person said. ers this offseason, prompt-
Trout would set a baseball ing complaints from the In this April 3, 2017, file photo, Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout celebrates after hitting a two-run
record for career earnings players’ association, top home run off Oakland Athletics’ Kendall Graveman in the third inning of a baseball game in
at about $513 million, sur- stars have gained robust Oakland, Calif.
passing the roughly $448 deals. Four of the largest Associated Press
million Alex Rodriguez took seven contracts will have would have been cov- ing in laid-back Southern ‘16 and finished second in
in with Seattle, Texas and been agreed to since Feb. eted as a free agent after California, and the low-key MVP voting four times, tying
the New York Yankees from 19, with Trout and Harper the 2020 season. He lives in outfielder decided to skip the record shared by Stan
1994-2017. joined by Manny Machado southern New Jersey, and the pressure free agency Musial, Ted Williams and Al-
Trout’s latest deal would ($300 million for 10 years Harper said he was excited entirely. Trout has been an bert Pujols.
top the new $330 million, with San Diego) and Nolan about trying to recruit Trout All-Star in each of his seven Big-money deals have not
12-year contract between Arenado ($260 million for to join him in Philadelphia. full big league seasons and worked out for the Angels
Bryce Harper and the Phila- eight years with Colorado). Although Trout recently hit .312 with 39 homers, 79 in the past. Pujols agreed
delphia Phillies, and Trout’s Los Angeles selected Trout built a home in his native RBIs, 24 steals and 122 walks to a $240 million, 10-year
$36 million average annual with the 25th overall pick Millville, New Jersey, he is last year. He led the major deal before the 2012 sea-
value would surpass pitcher in the 2009 amateur draft, staying on the West Coast leagues in OPS in each of son but has not matched
Zack Greinke’s $34.4 million and he signed for a bonus with the Angels, who are the last two seasons. his previous performance
in a six-year deal with Arizo- of $1,215,000. He made his coming off three straight Trout has a .307 average with St. Louis. Josh Hamilton
na that started in 2016. The major league debut on July losing seasons and haven’t with 240 homers, 648 RBIs, signed a $125 million, five-
contract also would best 8, 2011. won a playoff game during 189 steals and 693 walks in year contract before the
Mexican boxer Canelo Al- A 27-year-old entering his career. eight big league seasons. 2013 season and contribut-
varez’s $356 million deal what should be his prime Trout and wife Jessica He was voted AL Rookie of ed just 31 homers and 123
with sports-streaming ser- years, Trout is considered have made no secret of the Year in 2012, won the RBIs in two years with the
vice DAZN. baseball’s top player and how much they enjoy liv- AL MVP award in 2014 and Angels.q

Roglic wins Tirreno-Adriatico by 1 second from Yates

SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRON- and really go for it and I re- position for as long as I
TO, Italy (AP) — Primoz Ro- ally pushed until the finish could.
glic of Slovenia won the line. “There wasn’t much more
Tirreno-Adriatico cycling “I was confident but I can I could do, the strongest
race by one second when only control myself.” man won, but for sure next
he beat British rider Adam Yates had been in the lead year I’ll be back and hope-
Yates in the final-stage time of the race since the sec- fully I can come back stron-
trial on Tuesday. ond of the seven stages, ger.”
Victor Campenaerts won while his Mitchelton-Scott Jakob Fuglsang of Den-
the 10-kilometer (six-mile) team had won the open- mark finished third overall,
individual time trial in San ing-day team time trial. 30 seconds behind Roglic
Benedetto del Tronto. “It was close, but it wasn’t and nearly a minute ahead
Roglic, who rides for Team enough, that’s how it goes, of Tom Dumoulin.
Jumbo-Visma, started the that’s bike racing,” Yates Campenaerts won the final
time trial in second place said. stage in 11-plus minutes.
in the overall standings, 25 “I did the best I could, I said Alberto Bettiol was three
seconds behind Yates. yesterday that 25 seconds seconds behind the Bel-
“It was unbelievably close. isn’t really enough. But I did gian. Slovenian rider Primoz Roglic celebrates on the podim after
I was lucky in the end,” Ro- a good TT, I’ll have to look Jos van Emden of the Neth- winning the 54th Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, in San Benedetto
glic said. “I felt strong ... I back but I think the power erlands was four seconds del Tronto, central Italy, Tuesday, March 19, 2019.
tried to make a difference was good and I held my back.q Associated Press