Let’s forget for a moment the possibility of trading for one of Cleveland’s controllable stud pitchers. For the rest of this column, I don’t want you to be thinking about Trevor Bauer, Corey Kluber or anyone that wears that stylized C. I want you to think about someone a little off the board: the Blue Jays’ Marcus Stroman.
He’ll turn 28 in May, is under team control for two more seasons, and has shown more than a flash of above-average performance in the major leagues. He threw 200 innings in both 2016 and 2017 while being worth almost seven fWAR across those two seasons.