Moments before Pirates general manager Ben Cherington informed Jacob Stallings that he was being traded to the Marlins, Stallings received the heads up from teammate Bryan Reynolds, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.
“Hey, did you get traded?” Reynolds asked.
“I don’t know,” Jacob replied. “Did I?”
Reynolds had seen Rosenthal’s tweet reporting the four-player deal. The news broke while Stallings was attending one of the final pre-lockout bargaining sessions between MLB owners and the players’ union (Stallings does not have his own Twitter account, anyway).