A professional baseball team manager, in order to have the funds to sign a new second-baseman, discreetly arranged to trade one of the most popular outfielders on the team for a lesser-known player and an undisclosed amount of money  The manager secretly considered the outfielder to be overrated and overpaid  Reporters forcefully criticized the trade, arguing that the team had lost its best player and that the manager had violated his fiduciary duties to the team and the fans  A few weeks after being traded, the outfielder was retraded, for twice the value received by the original team manager
Plainly, the outfielder' s price shows that the reporters' criticism of the manager' s action was accurate
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