Before anyone calls me on it, I’ll be the first to admit that I was critical of the Blue Jays’ front office for some of the trades they made this past July. One of them was the swap that sent Marcus Stroman to the New York Mets in exchange for Anthony Kay and Simeon Woods Richardson.
I was surprised that the Mets were the team that swooped in to trade for the Blue Jays’ top starter, but I was even more surprised that the trade happened several days in advance of the deadline, and that I didn’t recognize either of the names coming back to Toronto.