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Defensive WAR is always debatable, but here's an interesting evalation using B-R's WAR (offense + defense):
The B-R JAWS score evaluates top all-time players at each position based on their best seven season WARs (they do not have to be consecutive) and career total WAR
Trout has only had five full seasons, and he is already 9th at CF in WAR7: http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/jaws_CF.shtml (*note - sort by WAR7 by clicking on it)
Removing 2011 (40 games/135PA), he has 47.8 WAR in 5 seasons
Assuming he gets two more seasons that average 8.1 WAR (which is a pretty conservative bet), he will have a WAR7 of at least 74.0.
The best WAR7 for a CF is Willie Mays - 73.7. Second-best is Ty Cobb (69.0) The top WAR7 post-Mays is Griffey (53.9)
So by that scale Trout is on pace to have the most dominant stretch by a CF ever.
After that, hard to say how a guy ages (Griffey had a WAR over 2.0 once after age 30, his dad did it three times after age 30).
people called me an idiot for burning popcorn in the microwave, but i know the real truth. - nullnor
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