Why they traded him to the Reds is a mystery.
should have stayed Met along with Nolan Ryan
https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/seaver-tom
Perhaps no single player is identified more with one team than “The Franchise” Tom Seaver is with the New York Mets. Seaver helped turn the Mets from loveable losers into formidable foes. Hall of Fame outfielder and Mets broadcaster Ralph Kiner recalled “Tom Seaver was the driving force behind the players, always pushing the team to be better than they were, never letting them settle.”
In 1969, the Mets captured their first World Series championship behind the powerful right arm of “Tom Terrific.” Seaver took home his first National League Cy Young Award that year, leading the major leagues in victories with 25, which accounted for one quarter of the Mets’ wins.
I was 8 and a huge Mets fan. That was a horrible night. The media dubbed it the “Friday night massacre”.