{"id":763948,"date":"2026-07-28T20:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/763948\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:24:16","slug":"steven-trout-signs-4-year-contract-extension-with-texas-state-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/763948\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Trout signs 4-year contract extension with Texas State baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas State baseball<\/a> coach Steven Trout<\/a>‘s four-year contract extension will pay him an annual salary of $300,000 through the end of the 2030 season, according to documents obtained by the American-Statesman through a records request.<\/p>\n

Trout’s buyout starts at $17,500 and is multiplied by the number of months remaining on the contract. If Trout leaves Texas State for another job, he’s obligated to pay the university $225,000, which decreases to $150,000 if he departs after July 1, 2027 and to $75,000 if he leaves after July 1, 2029.<\/p>\n

The contract expires June 30, 2030. The university announced the extension last week.<\/p>\n

Trout’s salary increases by $10,000 starting Sept. 1, 2027, and he could earn more incentives depending on how far the Bobcats make it in the postseason. If Texas State wins a regular-season championship, a conference tournament, wins 40 games or earns an at-large NCAA Tournament bid, the coach receives a $15,000 pay bump for every year remaining on his contract. He receives a $50,000 raise for a super regional appearance and $100,000 if the team makes the College World Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas State baseball coach Steven Trout‘s four-year contract extension will pay him an annual salary of $300,000 through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,1694,2341,6335,8800,38820,75887,44912],"class_list":["post-763948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-ncaa-baseball-tournament","tag-ncaa-division-i","tag-texas-state-bobcats","tag-texas-state-bobcats-baseball","tag-texas-state-university"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116999478509461519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}