On December 16, 2012, the Blue Jays made a gigantic swap with the New York Mets that still gets talked about regularly today. Unfortunately, it’s often in a negative light.
Then-GM Alex Anthopoulos agreed to send Noah Syndergaard, Travis d’Arnaud, John Buck, and Wuilmer Becerra to New York in exchange for the 2012 NL Cy Young award winner, R.A. Dickey, as well as catchers Josh Thole and Mike Nickeas. It was an “icing on the cake” trade after the Blue Jays had made another blockbuster with the Miami Marlins earlier that off-season, and it was supposed to help the team get back to the World Series.