A relationship between a team and a player is a two-way street, and unfortunately it’s often a complicated puzzle. It’s especially complicated when one party didn’t really want to be involved to begin with.
That’s more or less what happened to the Blue Jays after their 1998 season, and in a way, it kinda happened twice. First of all, Roger Clemens was coming off of his second straight Cy Young award win as a Blue Jay, and had requested to be traded that off-season. The Blue Jays found a deal that they believed would work, sending him to the Yankees for David Wells, Homer Bush, and Graeme Lloyd.