I thought the exact same thing at the time, but I guess you could argue that it's better to have the player for the whole year and you don't know if Cliff Lee will waive his NO TRADE clause to play for the Blue Jays which is a big if. If it was me, I wouldn't have made the deals in the offseason, nor would I trade Syndergaard for Lee, but then again, I'm not the GM and I have no pressure to improve the team ASAP which in my mind is what ownership decided they wanted from baseball operations.