Trout Off To The Best 40 Game Start Of His Career

His OPS so far this year is 1.223 (AVG .350, OBP .466, SLG .757). Starting with 2012, here are his OPS numbers through 40 games each year starting with 2012 with the league average in parentheses after:

2012) .977 (.731)
2013) .912 (.725)
2014) .888 (.706)
2015) .941 (.730)
2016) .975 (.744)
2017) 1.223 (.733)

(the league averages are for the whole season). Trout had 3 months prior to this season with an OPS of at least 1.200 (minimum of 75 PAs). But no one ever plays 40 games in a month.

So I used enough games from the months before and after to see if he had any 40 game stretches that at least match the 1.223 OPS of this year. There was one, which includes July 2015 when his OPS was 1.323 in 21 games. Adding in his last 19 games from June would give him an OPS of 1.239 (all data from Baseball Reference using player splits and game logs).

So this is probably his 2nd best 40 game stretch of his career.