Dave Roberts Views Walker Buehler, Clayton Kershaw &....

The Wilpons are on par with Dolan in terms of overpowering and unrelenting ineptitude.  We heard some of this scuttlebutt in the offseason too.  The Mets' brass has always had a touchy relationship with Thor because he isn't afraid to speak his mind and the Mets generally don't like those kinds of players.  To me, Syndergaard is a guy who has the ability to become one of the game's best pitchers, his stuff is that good, but he's had injury issues in recent years and he's been on a dogshit team led by a clown car full of cretins.  

If the Mets were willing to go the Braves route from a few years ago (when they traded away guys like Upton and Simmons as a means of quickly rebuilding the top shelf of the minors), then Syndergaard are Conforto are perfect chips - they're young, under team control for a few more years and they're both above-average players who can make an impact on most rosters.  If the Mets were able to pry away a Kyle Tucker, or someone like that, then it's something I think the Mets should definitely explore because the team has a lot of holes that a Syndergaard trade could fill.  But they have no balls. 

That said, I love Syndergaard and I hope he spends his entire career in Queens.  

In the end, I think they just wanted to throw his name out there just to see what they could get.  Adding Stroman cost relatively little in terms of prospects and he fills a rotation hole that is most likely going to be left when Wheeler signs elsewhere in the offseason.