Long before the New York Mets signed 2016 Cy Young winner Rick Porcello ahead of the 2020 season, the team had already put together a rather deep history of inking former winners of this award.
The first they acquired was Warren Spahn. This happened back in the mid-1960s when teams would still often purchase players from another organization. In which case, Spahn doesn’t exactly fit the criteria of a free agent.
Even eliminating him and the handful of Cy Young winners they acquired via trade, Mets history runs deep with men who were at one point the league’s best pitcher.