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NY Times: After Trades, Syndergaard and Arrieta Find Their Way and Cross Paths
By TYLER KEPNER
Noah Syndergaard and Jake Arrieta might have had many duels in the American League East, at Rogers Centre in Toronto and Camden Yards in Baltimore, if not for a baseball migration. Both pitchers, who faced each other at Citi Field on Sunday, escaped before reaching their potential — bound, eventually, for this National League Championship Series.
Syndergaard started Game 2 against the Arrieta and the Chicago Cubs. Their acquisitions were critical moves for their teams, who traded veteran pitchers for younger versions with dynamic stuff and years of club control.
The Mets got Syndergaard and catcher Travis d’Arnaud, neither of whom had played in the majors, from the Blue Jays in the December 2012 trade for R.A. Dickey, who had just won the N.L. Cy Young Award. The next July, the Cubs sent starter Scott Feldman to the Orioles in a deal for Arrieta, whose career earned run average was 5.46. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/sports/baseball/after-trades-syndergaard-and-arrieta-find-their-way-and-cross-paths.html
By TYLER KEPNER
Noah Syndergaard and Jake Arrieta might have had many duels in the American League East, at Rogers Centre in Toronto and Camden Yards in Baltimore, if not for a baseball migration. Both pitchers, who faced each other at Citi Field on Sunday, escaped before reaching their potential — bound, eventually, for this National League Championship Series.
Syndergaard started Game 2 against the Arrieta and the Chicago Cubs. Their acquisitions were critical moves for their teams, who traded veteran pitchers for younger versions with dynamic stuff and years of club control.
The Mets got Syndergaard and catcher Travis d’Arnaud, neither of whom had played in the majors, from the Blue Jays in the December 2012 trade for R.A. Dickey, who had just won the N.L. Cy Young Award. The next July, the Cubs sent starter Scott Feldman to the Orioles in a deal for Arrieta, whose career earned run average was 5.46. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/sports/baseball/after-trades-syndergaard-and-arrieta-find-their-way-and-cross-paths.html
