Mike Trout robs a homer and hits a homer in big spring performance

There's midseason form and then there's Mike Trout's advanced version of midseason form that only the man himself can achieve. On Saturday, we were fortunate enough to experience the latter during the Angels 5-4 loss to the Dodgers.

In one afternoon at his Arizona office in Tempe, Trout took an apparent Dodgers' home run off the board with a leaping catch at the fence, and then a few short innings he put a home run on the board with an absolute rocket to left-center field.

First, let's dicuss the robbery.

In the very first inning, Trout glided back to the deepest part of the ballpark at Tempe Diablo Stadium and then timed his leap beautifully to take away what we're fairly certain would have been a home run from Alex Guerrero. Sometimes it's difficult to tell where exactly the ball was caught in relation to the wall from the front and side camera angles, but at worst he robbed a triple because that's a long way from home plate and Guerrero has some decent speed.

It wouldn't rank all that close to the top of his all-time greatest catches, many of which have been home run robberies. But it definitely stands out from the pack in March.

As for the home run.

That was a no doubter off Dodgers starter Dustin McGowan.

One can safely assume we'll see plenty more just like that this season, and perhaps a few more hugs as well.

Great catches, home runs and hugs. All in a day's work for Mike Trout.

And he even had time left to tweet about basketball.

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Mark Townsend is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at bigleaguestew@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Townie813