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Bill Plaschke: Mike Trout deserves his huge new contract, and Angels deserve applause for getting it done

Good heavens, it really happened.

Mike Trout is an Angel for life.

Few thought he wanted to stay. Even fewer thought the team would be able to keep him.

Then Arte Moreno stepped in and took a giant hack and just crushed it, delivering a hit bigger than Scott Spiezio's three-run jack on that October night in 2002, doing what great sports owners in Southern California do.

Moreno connected on such an impactful blow, the outcome is worth repeating, this

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