Wake Up With Tim Salmon Becoming The Angels All-Time Home Run Leader (2000)
We woke up with Roger Clemens yesterday, and we’re sort of waking up with him again today. But instead of dominating the Red Sox in his return to Fenway Park with the Blue Jays, he’s serving up historical dingers to Tim Salmon. That man was there for all the team name changes. He came up with the California Angels, set the franchise home run record with the Anaheim Angels, and retired with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
I’ll save you the research — Salmon finished his career with 299 home runs, all with the Angels. Mike Trout is currently at 172 home runs. That means he’s 127 home runs shy of the team record. He’s averaged 33 homers over his first five major league seasons, so that puts him on a pace to break the Angels franchise home run record some time in 2020, the final year of his six-year extension with the Angels that he signed back in 2014.