He was quietly included in the December 2012 seven-player trade with Toronto that brought Travis d’Arnaud and Noah Syndergaard to the Mets in exchange for R.A. Dickey.
Becerra was just 17 years old playing for Toronto’s rookie level Gulf Coast League squad at the time of the trade. With a mere 11 games and 32 at-bats to his professional credit, perhaps Toronto’s notoriously trade-happy, and now former general manager Alex Anthopoulos thought of him as nothing more than a throw-in and deal sweetener.
In any event, Mets fans seemingly have their next best reason to be thankful Sandy Alderson made that trade.