Why do you think there has to be lies? Isn't it really that the tigers supposedly said they would relese Tim but then changed their mind ? Is that a lie ? Is it dishonest ?
So that sits okay with you that the Tigers give the okay or verbal that they are letting Moltzen go and then after he signs with another club they change their mind and decide 3 months later to play hard ball?
I don't care which way you look at it, it makes absolutely no sense that Humphreys would let the Tigers players, coach and everyone else believe Moltzen was gone and not say anything. Moltzen even said himself he bawled his eyes out after the semi loss because he thought he would not be at the Tigers anymore. So even at that late point Moltzen thought he was gone and Humphreys just let him keep thinking that.