Steven Russell Trout is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played in the 1980s. He turned out for the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, and Seattle Mariners as a starting pitcher, before completing his 11th season in the Major Leagues in 1989. He is the son of Dizzy Trout, who was also a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Trout has embarked upon a number of projects since retiring from baseball. From November through April each year, Trout holds a baseball seminar out of his Venice, Florida home, which is open to people of all ages. In 2002, he published Home Plate: The Journey of the Most Flamboyant Father and Son Pitching Combination in Major League History, a book about his and his father’s baseball careers. Hall of Shame Baseball Rogue Agent and John’s Journey, Experiences Are Tattoos of the Soul are among Trout’s other works.

Trout has worked as a pitching coach for the Can-Am League’s Brockton Rox and the Frontier League’s Windy City ThunderBolts in Chicago. He was appointed as the manager of the Texarkana Gunslingers for their debut season on January 25, 2008. He was subsequently hired as the head coach at Moloka’i High School in Hawaii in March 2010, after responding to an advertisement in a local newspaper. In 2015, he founded the Chicago-based Trout Baseball Academy, which runs baseball programmes for kids throughout the year.