Everybody in baseball knew David Price was going to sign for more than 7/210. He knew, his agent knew, the team, (most) fans, the American media etc... David Price was never signing for less than 7/210. The team knew that, given their current context, they weren't interested in him at that rate, or likely anywhere close to it. And so they did what any group of busy people tends to do: they focused their time and energy on things that were productive rather than wasting them on a player that was never coming back.
This happens all the time. It happened when Pujols left St. Louis, and their fans were whining in a similar way to the way Toronto's fans are whining now. And then it became obvious that the team made the right decision, and the whining stopped.