According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, Marcus Stroman isn’t exactly attracting a whole lot of attention on the trade market as of late, existing within a market that “isn’t exactly bustling right now”.
Passan also posits that “the prospects of the Toronto Blue Jays moving Stroman have decreased in recent weeks. Interested teams simply aren’t offering packages commensurate with what the Blue Jays believe Stroman’s value to be, basing it off the expectation that he’ll return to 2017 form after a disastrous 2018 “.
This, of course, is contrary to recent reports that both the San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds expressed genuine interest in acquiring the young hurler, who, according to Ross Atkins at the winter meets in early December, was garnering quite a bit of interest from rival teams.