Perhaps, Trout's agent made a big deal out of this to show his client he wants what's best for him. You don't think every agent in the free and unfree world is hounding Trout to switch to them?
Trout and Harper are primed to secure Arod+ lifetime earnings that will probably be more than $500,000,000.00 when they retire. What agent wouldn't want a cut out of that?!?!