In the little that goes of the winter and the low season, New York Mets It is the team that has made the most weighty hires towards the 2022 season, which surprised players and managers, as the new general manager Bily Eppler is only demonstrating the potential he has to sign big contracts in the MLB.
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Marcus Stroman made the 2019 Mets roster. (AP)
With the addition of Eduardo Escobar, Starling Marte and Mark Canha to the ninth of Queens, the priorities of the Mets now they focus on pitching, an area in which the team has shown interest in signing stars such as Max Scherzer, Kevin Gausman or even the recent American League Cy Young Award winner, Robbie Ray.
With those rumors floating in the free agency of the Big leagues, Stroman assured in his account of Twitter that the team is going for other pitchers in the market, so it is difficult for him to return for the next season.
“I would love to be part of the team again next year. I’ve shown that I can pitch in New York … others generally collapse under pressure from New York, ”Stroman said in the tweet. “However, I know of a source who says that the main office goes for other pitchers on the market. I will dominate wherever it ends. By the way, the source is me ”.
Despite the 30-year-old pitcher’s perception of the situation, a recent report from MLB Trade Rumors He said the Mets office does have plans to re-sign Stroman.
Even the Mets had liked what they had seen from Stroman so they gave him a qualifying offer in 2021 for $ 18.9 million.
Stroman came to Queens at the 2019 trade deadline in a trade with the Toronto Blue Jays. That season with a record of four wins and two losses with a 3.77 ERA in 11 games as a starter.
The right-hander chose not to play the shortened 2020 season before becoming the Mets’ most consistent starter in 2021, a season in which Jacob deGrom, Taijuan Walker, David Peterson, Joey Lucchesi y Noah Syndergaard they saw a very limited season due to injury issues.
