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You can squint and make baseball arguments for this trade, if you’re motivated to do so. What I see is a front office that lost a couple of power struggles, didn’t like that, and saw the opportunity to have the final word and take back close to $300 million in the process. This wasn’t a trade, it was a tantrum.
