Mike Trout

What's the first big purchase we've seen Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout make since signing his new six-year, $144.5 million contract? A great gift for his mom. 

Sometimes, when you just can't buy any hits and you really feel the need to find yourself, the best thing to do is pay a visit to the Houston Astros.

It worked for the Los Angeles Angels, anyway.

Per MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout signed a six-year, $144.5 million contract Friday, marking the second-largest deal in MLB history for a player with less than three years of service time, according to ESPN Stats & Info.

For young, emerging superstars, contracts and earning power often become a combination of risk, reward and timing. For Mike Trout, the stars aligned in the form of a $144.5 million contract extension from the Los Angeles Angels, setting the once-in-a-generation all-around baseball genius up for now and later.

Mike Trout, the Angels’ 22-year-old phenom, and arguably (OK, not so arguably, just fact) the best player in all of baseball, will be staying in Southern California for quite some time.

For the last two seasons, Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout has played like one of the best in baseball.

Now he's getting paid like one, the team announced:

According to MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez, the Angels and Trout have agreed on a massive new deal that pays the back-to-back MVP runner-up around $140 million over the next six years:

Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout have become the Larry Bird and Magic Johnson of modern baseball debate and conversation. Rarely will analysts utter one without the other. In light of Miguel Cabrera's record-breaking contract extension, an obvious question emerges: What about Mike Trout? 

Somebody recently asked Albert Pujols if he was motivated to put up numbers like those of fellow Los Angeles Angels superstar Mike Trout. Pujols didn't take kindly to that and was still stewing about it in a more recent interview this week.

Had the first two years of Bryce Harper's career happened in, say, 2010 and 2011, we undoubtedly would have celebrated the young Washington Nationals slugger as the great young player in MLB. 

The largest contract in MLB history stands at $275 million. What we're here to discuss is the prospect of Mike Trout one day putting that to shame with a $400 million contract.

"Ridiculous" might be the first word that comes to mind. Or maybe one of those weird hybrid words like "absurdulous."