"Pegula had his ideas who he wanted off the team during his initial interviews/meetings with Botterill, but he agreed to let Botterill make his own assessment of room and see what happens with a new staff. ROR Name was out there at the 2018 Deadline, but the his cost was astronomical at the time. The TH Incident pissed him off, but the locker room continuing to be a CF along with Lost My Love For the Game was the catalyst for trade the guy before July 1st."
I have subscribed to Brawndo's theory above for some time. My personal belief, albeit speculative is that the locker room CF was worse than we may think and the future face of the franchise was Jack so out went Ryan. ..