Well said. People have to realise his value went down by his own doing. NOthing the team could have done to change that. what they did is reduce additional damage and get more then his current value.
Houston is getting lots of flack now and they are the champs and one of baseballs best teams, imagine how worst this flack would have been on a rebuilding team, where fans have nothing else to talk about but an abusive player.
Like it or not (i do), this is a new reality in our society , look at urban myer, one of college football great, in trouble, not for abusing, but for knowing about an abuse.