I don't follow baseball very closely. But from what the article said. (I read 3/4 of it)
Good for him.
"Took the incentives as an insult." I would've, too.
But what I don't understand, maybe it was in the 1/4 I skipped:p, what caused all this? I mean - why don't the higher-ups like him any more, if he's so great?