Remember when the Detroit Tigers traded Cameron Maybin on the first day of the offseason following the 2016 season? People were not happy. Maybin was the only center fielder on the roster at the time, and had a reasonable $9 million team option remaining on his contract. Rather than pay that money plus the associated luxury tax penalty, the Tigers instead shipped him to the Los Angeles Angels, where he enjoyed a very Cameron Maybin season — the numbers were okay, and then he got hurt.
That trade riled so many people up that they forget who the Tigers received in return.