What’s behind Mike Trout’s early struggles?

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Though Bryce Harper is thriving, his young megastar counterpart Mike Trout is off to a rough start in 2016.

Mike Trout- First 14 GamesBAOPS2016.220.6732015.3531.0122014.3171.0192013.300.8372012.283.8352011.163.492

Trout went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts as the Los Angeles Angels were shut out by the White Sox on Tuesday night.

Trout is carrying a .220/.333/.340 slash-line to go along with four extra-base hits and one home run through 14 games, and he’s been bad against both left and right-handed pitching. The only other time he struggled like this to start a season was in his debut year, 2011, when he hit .163 with a .492 OPS through his first 14 games.

What’s going on?

Trout can’t cite being pitched around as the issue. He and Harper are seeing virtually identical percentages of pitches in the strike zone this season (46 percent), a rate …

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