In appreciation of Mike Trout’s consistent greatness, Mike Trout Monday is For The Win’s weekly roundup of stuff Mike Trout did.

Mike Trout just keeps socking ding-dongs.

After a torrid early-July homer stretch was interrupted first by the All-Star Break and then by a minor calf injury, Trout jacked bombs on Saturday and Sunday to up his season total to an American League-leading 32.

Trout now has 10 homers across only 13 games in July, an outrageous outburst even by his own outrageous standards. He’s on pace to hit 51 this season, which would shatter his previous career high of 41 — set back in 2015.

But Trout’s uptick in longballs should hardly seem unexpected or unprecedented: For one thing, the whole league is hitting way more homers because the baseball is quite obviously juiced. For another, Trout established new career bests in his rate of home runs per at-bat in both 2017 and 2018; only injuries prevented him from setting new career highs in total homers the last two seasons.

Here’s Sunday’s bomb, featuring a nice grab by the Angels’ bullpen catcher:

Trout’s game is so good in so many ways that we don’t tend to consider him as a great home-run hitter so much as just a great all-around player. Sunday’s dinger marked the 272nd of Trout’s career, meaning he has a long, long, long way to go to reach Barry Bonds’ all-time record of 762.

Even if Trout gets to 51 this season, and 51 turns out to be his new normal, he’ll need to stay healthy and effective enough to do it for the next eight seasons after this one before he gets to 700. It’s ridiculous to even be discussing this, except in that Mike Trout Monday is a space for dreaming big about the possibilities for Trout’s career.

And this is Mike Trout we’re talking about, and everything we understand about baseball players and their aging curves kind of needs to get thrown out the window when considering such an extreme outlier. Trout appears to be getting better still, and one of the many ways that has borne out in recent seasons has been a higher home-run rate.

Here’s Saturday’s tater:

It’s worth noting that Trout has more home runs at his age than any member of MLB’s three-man 700-home run club did. Babe Ruth, you may know, started out as a pitcher and as such had only 197 career homers through the end of his age-27 season. Hank Aaron never hit homers in great volumes so much as he hit them extremely consistently for an extremely long time — his season high is 47, but he still jacked 40 as a 39-year-old in 1973. He sat at 253 at the end of his age-27 campaign. Barry Bonds’ 762 career homers all count, but a disproportionate number of them came after he turned 35; he didn’t hit his 200th homer until a week before his 29th birthday.

If Trout were to shut it down today and sit out the rest of the year, he’d be eighth all time in homers among all players through their age-27 seasons. If he keeps up his season pace, he’ll move into the Top 5 for his age — behind only Alex Rodriguez, Jimmie Foxx, Eddie Mathews and Ken Griffey Jr. None of those guys got to 700, obviously: Mathews and Griffey’s pursuits were derailed by injuries, A-Rod’s by suspension (and injuries), and Foxx’s by any or all of vision issues, a sinus problem, and booze.

So to answer the question in the headline: Sure, if he stays healthy and especially if MLB doesn’t unjuice the baseballs. It’s extremely unlikely, obviously, but so is a guy breaking into Major League Baseball at age 20, immediately establishing himself as a historically great player, then only getting better from there. It’s only sort of silly to be talking about this now; one or two more seasons like this one and you can count on it becoming a full-blown thing.