If Major League Baseball decides to cancel the 2020 season, Marcus Stroman may never pitch for the New York Mets again.
According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, in the event of the 2020 season being canceled, players would receive service time equaling the amount they played during the 2019 season. Any player with an expiring contract would become a free agent in the winter, including Stroman.
Stroman, who was acquired at the trade deadline last July, was advertised by the Mets as the replacement for Zack Wheeler in 2020. They traded two of their top-ten prospects in Anthony Kay and Simeon Woods Richardson to acquire Stroman.