Everyone knows that Tom Seaver was the Mets ace who led them to their miracle 1969 World Series win.
Everyone knows that the Mets, to their fans’ eternal consternation, traded him to the Reds for four mostly-forgotten dudes in 1977.
Everyone knows that after Seaver’s time in Cincinnati he went back to the Mets for one “eh, the magic is gone” season, had a mini-renaissance with the White Sox, and then had a final respectable season with the Red Sox before retiring following the 1986 campaign.
Everyone, of course, knows that after all of that was said and done he was, indisputably, the best pitcher of his era and is one of the few men with a legitimate claim to being the best pitcher to ever walk Planet Earth.