Watching BST and they're talking about the 3000 hit thingy.
Trout is 30, and has only 1400 hits, but HAS NEVER HAD A 200 HIT SEASON?
He walks way too much to get a 200 hit season.
Rickey Henderson and Carl Yastrzemski never had more than 200 hits in a season. However, both had 3,000+ career hits AND are in the top 10 on the all-time walk list. In fact, five of the top 20 all-time walk leaders had 3,000+ career hits::
2. Rickey Henderson (3,055 hits and 2,190 walks in 25 seasons - 1.395 hit-to-walk ratio - never more than 179 hits in a season)
6. Carl Yastrzemski (3,419 hits and 1,845 walks in 23 seasons - 1.853 HTW ratio - never more than 191 hits in a season)
13. Stan Musial (3,630 hits and 1,599 walks in 22 seasons - 2.270 HTW ratio - six 200+ hit seasons)
14. Pete Rose (4,256 hits and 1,566 walks in 24 seasons - 2.718 HTW ratio - ten 200+ hit seasons)
19. Eddie Collins (3,315 hits and 1,499 walks in 25 seasons - 2.211 HTW ratio - one 200+ hit season)
Trout's highest hit total was 190, in a year when he led the American League in walks with 110 (.432 OBP). He's got 1,436 hits and 873 walks in 5,719 plate appearances. That's a 1.645:1 hit to walk ratio, which is notably higher than that of Rickey Henderson and a little bit less than that of Yastrzemski.
Trout certainly CAN get to 3,000 hits and continue to walk a lot. But he'll have have to have another mostly healthy decade of continued excellence. He's under contract for eight seasons after 2022, so if he can continue to be productive when he's 37/38, it wouldn't surprise me for someone to give him another 2-3 year contract after that.