NEW YORK _ Marcus Stroman, a diminutive pitcher, goes by the motto that height doesn't measure heart. The latter always has been most important to him, and never more so than now. He has declared that, after a moment's stunned review, home is where his heart is.
The Medford native and newest Mets pitcher acknowledged Monday during a conference call that he was involved in commotion in the Blue Jays' clubhouse Sunday after he was told he had been traded. But he insisted that it was about the shock of being dealt and disagreement with Blue Jays personnel over the handling of it. It was not, he said, disappointment over missing out on going to the Yankees.
"I'm excited to be a New York Met and I can't wait to get there and be a part of it," he told reporters from Toronto during a break from packing and preparing to meet the Mets in Chicago. "My family is excited, man. I'm going to be able to play baseball kind of in my backyard. They're going to be able to come watch me pitch every game. I've been getting a huge outpouring from a lot of my family who've actually been huge Met fans from the start."
