Paying $144.5 million is team-friendly? Mike Trout will still take it

Mike Trout's six-year deal may be good for Angels, considering he likely could've made more as 2017 free agent. But it's not too shabby for him.Mike Trout could have rejected the Angels' overtures this winter, signed a series of one-year deals through arbitration, become a free agent at age 26 and inked the largest contract in baseball history in 2017.