After 11 years in the New York Yankees organization, starting pitcher Ivan Nova was unceremoniously shipped out of town at the August 1st trade deadline. He was maddeningly inconsistent in 2016 for a club that desperately needed stability in their starting rotation, so GM Brian Cashman traded him to Pittsburgh for two players to be named later.
He never really seemed to recover his previous form following the Tommy John surgery that caused him to miss nearly all of 2014. Since his return to the mound in June 2015, Nova compiled a 4.99 ERA and 4.