Mike Trout's obsessed with weather: 'He'd always be checking the radar'

When Mike Trout isn't hitting balls into the clouds, he's staring at them.

The Los Angeles Angels slugger and reigning AL Most Valuable Player recently discussed his second passion other than baseball: weather.

"I was young, and I always wanted to get off school," Trout said in a sit-down with Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports. "So I'd ask, 'When's the snowstorm coming?' I was the kid in class who would see snow out the window and start looking at it and want to play with it."

Trout's enthusiasm for meteorology didn't diminish as his baseball career progressed into stardom.

"We'd have bad thunderstorms there," teammate Garrett Richards said when recalling a moment while in Double-A. "He'd always be checking the radar. And we had a balcony at our apartment. He'd go out there and sit all night."

Trout acknowledged that he would love to try his hand at reporting the weather on television, and that he's been in talks to potentially make an appearance on the Weather Channel this offseason.

"We're planning on me doing a story when there's a big storm in Jersey," Trout said. "I'm gonna be on the Weather Channel. Hopefully, we get a big snowstorm.

"A sick vacation for me would be to go to upstate New York when a big snowstorm hits."