LA Angels Teammates Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani have both signed this Rawlings Official Major League game ball. Signed in the presence of a representative from MLB Authentics, this ball has an MLB hologram # VS313287.
Both players won Rookie of the Year honors – Trout in 2012 and Ohtani in 2016. There are four AL MVP Most Valuable Player Awards between them (Trout in 2014, 2016 & 2019) and Ohtani in 2021.
Michael Nelson Trout is a 10 x MLB All-Star, 3 x AL MVP American League Most Valuable Player (2014, 2016, and 2019), and is a nine-time winner of the Silver Slugger Award. The Angels selected Trout in the first round of the 2009 MLB draft. He won the 2012 AL Rookie of the Year Award unanimously. Mike Trout led the American League in wins above replacement (WAR) in each of his first five full seasons (according to Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference.com). Trout has led the American League in runs (2012–14, 2016) and times on base (2013, 2015–16, 2018) four times.
Shohei Ohtani is the first two-way player in the history of MLB with 10+ home runs and 20+ stolen bases as a hitter and 100+ strikeouts and 10+ pitching appearances as a pitcher in the same season while also holding at least a share of the major league lead in home runs in fourteen starts. He was also the first player in MLB history to be an All-Star as both a pitcher and a hitter, as he was a starter in the 2021 All-Star Game in both capacities, as the AL's manager-selected starting pitcher (earning the win) and fan-elected starting designated hitter (as the leadoff hitter).