So you’re an MLB executive who’s found himself at a press conference to explain a sticky situation. Your baseball team has traded away its biggest homegrown star—which, sure, that’s common enough now that it no longer qualifies as “sticky” and hardly qualifies as a “situation.” But your case is a bit different. See, you signed your homegrown star to a massive extension two years ago, alienated him with your inability to manage the team properly, and are now paying tens of millions of dollars for another team to take him.
What Not to Say After Trading Your Franchise Star
