TEMPE, Ariz. — If you’ve paid no attention to Mike Trout’s spring training stats, you are excused. Spring training numbers, especially for a player of Trout’s caliber, are mostly meaningless.

But you’ve missed something that’s fairly remarkable, even among the noise of stats generated in mind-numbing exhibition games.

Trout has not struck out this spring.

His 44 plate appearances without a strikeout, through Tuesday’s game, are the most in the major leagues. The Royals’ Humberto Arteaga is second with 28. For context, Trout’s longest career whiff-less streak in the regular season is 28 plate appearances, from last year.

And going without strikeouts in spring training is probably harder than in the regular season, because hitters are still trying to get their timing and acclimate to the strike zone. They are also facing many pitchers they’ve never seen.

Trout, as you might expect, shrugged off this accomplishment, saying he’s made no changes to his swing or approach to cut down his strikeouts.

“Nothing new,” he said. “Just with two strikes, I’m trying to battle and get a pitch and put it in play. … Just getting better at it.”

Facing Arizona’s Robbie Ray, one of the best pitchers in the National League, on Tuesday, Trout got to two strikes in each of his first two trips. He fouled off at least one two-strike pitch each time, drawing a walk and hitting a flyout. He also fouled off a couple two-strike pitches before hitting a flyout against reliever Michael Blazek in his final trip.

Angels assistant hitting coach Paul Sorrento, who has been working with Trout since 2014, said he wasn’t even aware of what Trout had done.

“It’s not like we made it a priority for Mike,” Sorrento said. “Mike just keeps evolving as a player. He keeps getting better and better. I don’t think it’s a conscious effort.”

Trout struck out 184 times in 2014, one of a few blemishes on his first MVP season. He said the following spring that cutting down on those strikeouts was one of his goals.

His strikeout rate has decreased from 26 percent in 2014 to 23 percent (2015) to 20 percent (2016) to 18 percent last year.

If Trout can continue cutting down those strikeouts, it obviously further improves his otherworldly production. With his speed, he has a .355 average on balls in play through his career.

Sorrento said this is all part of the way a player, even Trout, improves as he gets more experience. Trout is just 26, not even to an age at which most players hit their prime.

“As crazy as it sounds,” Sorrento said, “I don’t think he’s tapped his full potential really. He’s getting older. He’s getting smarter at the plate. He’s got a better concept of the pitches he can and can’t handle, which is really very few. I think he’s just evolving, getting better and better every year. I don’t know what his ceiling is. Hopefully, it’s a lot higher. We’re looking at someone who comes around once every 20-25 years.”