When people talk about his legacy, I sort of think that the main thing is that it's the man's life, and the question should be, how does he want to live the next few years.
If he loves to play baseball, maybe he'd rather continue to play, even if his production was mediocre and his "legacy" was being diminished. If it was me, my first concern would be health, second would be, what do I want to do, and somewhere after that would be the legacy thing.
In other words, I think fans, who have plenty of ballplayers past, present, and future to talk about and collect, care more about legacy than Mike Trout himself should. There is so much more to the man's life than the numbers he is putting in the record books. If he loves the game and being active in it, that's more important to him than what his career WAR or whatever will be.
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