Justin Verlander spoke out for the first time on Thursday since being traded back to the Astros from the Mets.
The pitcher won the World Series with Houston just last season, and then signed a deal with New York. However, Verlander admitted that the trades of pitchers David Robertson and Max Scherzer made him realize there may be changes coming in his immediate future as well.
“As a player, you’re thinking it’s gonna work until the last possible moment,” Scherzer told Fox Sports’s Ken Rosenthal. “You’re like ‘We can always turn this around, it’s going to click.’ And then really when they traded Robertson, it’s like ‘Oh, oh no.’ Then when Max got traded, it’s like ‘Alright, it’s time to have a serious discussion about how it’s going to go. I didn’t really have a ton of time and it wasn’t a moment until those trades happened, where it’s like ‘Man, we might need to rethink this thing.’ It wasn’t easy.”
