Mike Trout Won’t Keep Quiet Anymore About His Signature Cleat
It was almost a decade ago when Mike Trout sat in a room at Nike’s world headquarters and fielded questions from Nike developers about creating his first signature cleat. The experience was a lot to take in for Trout, and he approached it with the deferential humility that the superstar is known for — how it was an honor to have a signature shoe in the first place, how he didn’t want to overstep boundaries in his feedback. But there was more to the humble superstar’s reserved approach than bashfulness, setting up a key motivation for his newest cleat, the Nike Force Zoom Trout 6. “I held in my feedback for those first meetings, but it was more because I didn’t know Nike could make the smallest changes based on what I wanted,” says Trout. "If there was some seam on the cleat I didn’t like, I could change it, or if there was a feature from a past cleat I wanted to bring in, I could do it. Looking back, I should’ve been more vocal from day one.” The cleat has two updates from t...