Billy Eppler answered the question like a man who had grown tired of hearing it.
"Um, yeah," the Los Angeles Angels' general manager said pointedly, "we're not going to trade Mike Trout."
Eppler, in his third season as the Angels' GM, is asked about that possibility basically every September. The subject of trading Trout came up again last week, moments after the Angels announced that Shohei Ohtani, their exceedingly talented two-way player, needs Tommy John surgery.