OK, you asked for thoughts. I gave you mine.
Rushing to make deals is a bad idea. Experienced, inexperience, successful, unsuccessful, it doesn't matter. The commish saw a new owner rushing to make deals and offering up a 25 y/o beast and very good, albeit overpaid, 180 inning pitcher for "not much in return". It's a horrible negotiating stance, "I don't really want anything but to be rid of these contracts and I'm taking the first offer I get", and it's coming from a owner that's new to the world and new to HBD. He probably could have done it privately but, either way, something needed to be said.
If you call that "interfering" so be it. I think, had he left out "I was going to make offers for those guys", there would be no question that he was looking out for the best interest of the world.