The New York Mets‘ acquisition of Marcus Stroman was shocking to pretty much everybody. It was expected that he would be traded to a contending team, and instead, he joins a team five games below .500.
Stroman said he was “crazy excited” to be joining the Mets, but there are reasons to be concerned. There was a commotion in the Toronto Blue Jays’ clubhouse after news of the trade broke, and it was reported by Rob Longley of the Toronto Sun that it was Stroman’s reaction to the trade that caused it and that it “was not pretty.