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Originally Posted by JayP
That's a very exaggerated comparison. Dickey was coming off a Cy Young season and also a stretch of 3 elite seasons. Jagr is a 2nd line forward. A much better comparison would be Joe Thornton.
The deal obviously hasn't worked out, but you can't just assume Syndergaard turns into the player he is going through the Jays farm system. The Mets clearly have a knack for developing starting pitching and that's something you can't say the same about the Jays under AA. I doubt Syndergaard becomes the player he is now developing with the Jays.
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It's not an exageration at all. Syndergaard was widely considered to be the best pitching prospect in baseball.
Is it a guarantee he going to do what he's doing today? No, but all the signs pointed towards it (he had one full year in the minors at that point and was absolutely destroying teams).
I don't think you can get mad at the Jays for trading him (they really needed a boost), but for them to trade the best pitching and catching prospects in baseball (D'Arnault was major league ready) for a 39 year gimmick pitcher with 1.5 years of success in what was one of the worst divisions in baseball at the time was absolutely criminal. They could have had anyone with that package.
AA could have won Toronto a World Series, and i'd still be questioning him as GM after that trade. It has the potential to go down as one of the worst trades in the history of baseball.