Greg Cote: He is scorned, but does he deserve empathy, too? The story behind who Aubrey Huff became.

Aubrey Huff of the San Francisco Giants sits in the dugout during a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at AT&T Park on May 6, 2012, in San Francisco. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/TNS)

MIAMI — Is it possible to hate most everything someone stands for, and yet feel sorry for that person? To watch someone go so far off the rails that you worry whether they’re OK?

So Twitter permanently suspended former major-league — and Miami Hurricanes — baseball player Aubrey Huff this week, erasing all of his trolling and toxicity, and the move was met with cheers across social media, sort of a chorus of “Good riddance!