When the New York Yankees officially signed starting pitcher Marcus Stroman to a two-year, $37 million contract, some heads turned as they remembered the verbal jousting between he and Yankees brass at the 2019 trade deadline.
After general manager Brian Cashman said Stroman would likely have been a bullpen piece before declining to make a move for the veteran, the fiery Medford, New York, native took to social media to rub it in when he out-performed the Yankees staff.
At his introductory press conference on Thursday, Stroman was asked about how he and Cashman dealt with that potentially awkward past.