I'm under no direction from ownership that I have to trade them whatsoever. That's not even a factor.

As I understand it, they take ownership, but they're not going to have any input whatsoever.

At that time, they voiced no negative displeasure,

There's no question it's going to be a busy week. You're going to have some released players that had outs in their contracts that are going to be available, you've got players who are out of options that are going to be available, you've got players who ended up being 26th or 27th men on competitive teams that could possibly be an upgrade for us. You're going to see a lot of names, more as the week goes on. Every day the list is going to increase.

At that time, they voiced no negative displeasure. Obviously that changed between that last series and Monday.

The Colon trade was a decisive move, and every move after that was clearly in the direction of, rebuild with a foot on the accelerator, ... That's what it had been until maybe August last year. Everything since then has been, 'Let's see what we can do to try to finish off building the team within the constraints of the market.'