All winter, baseball’s off-season rumors have focused on the Mets and Blue Jays, the two teams fighting each other for big wins in Francisco Lindor and George Springer respectively.
Wednesday night, the two teamed up for a trade.
New York sent veteran left-hander Steven Matz to Toronto for right-handers Sean Reid-Foley, Yennsy Díaz and Josh Winckowski. While not a leading trade in the sport, it could have bigger consequences this offseason. Beat writers Tim Britton (New York) and Kaitlyn McGrath (Toronto) researched the deal.
Why did the Mets buy Matz?
Britton: Matz’s disastrous 2020 season has led to an extension candidate to a non-tender candidate in the span of six starts. New York and Toronto actually started this conversation at the end of November (h / t with Ken Rosenthal) before the Mets decided to continue offering a deal to Matz and eventually agreed to $ 5.2.