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What Not to Say After Trading Your Franchise Star

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.