So why did the hacker DM a bunch of people calling them names?
Why didn't he also delete his Twitter pics and banner?
Why was Rosen quick to respond to the hack?
Why would he return the pics on Instagram (can you even do that)?
Not ruling out that he self-deleted, but it's more reasonable than not that he was hacked.
Here is the timeline, all verifiable on his account and in the media:
February 22nd there is a thread on Rosen's timeline where trade rumors are being discussed and multiple people are talking about the rumors of him being traded
February 24th Rosen claims his account is hacked.
February 24th Rosen says he has his account back (same day about 20 minutes later. This is the important piece)
February 27th Keim says Rosen is our QB right now
February 28th People notice that the photos are gone and story goes viral
February 28th Rosen says "I didn’t delete my cardinals photos. They deleted every photo from the last two years except the most recent two.."
No one knows specifically when the photos were deleted. Just it was noticed immediately after Keim's comments.
So...
Either his account got hacked, they deleted his photos, he got the account back. He then did nothing about his account for 4 days. No one who is on social media noticed it until after Keim made his statements. Story goes viral. Rosen then acknowledges what happened 4 days ago and corrects it.
Or
Between when he claims he got hacked and when the photos vanished, he got upset by Keim's comments, deleted the photos, and then blamed it on "a hack" from 4 days ago when the story went viral and the team reached out to him.