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PITTSBURGH — It is a little jarring at first: The orange on the uniform and the “6” that was emblematic of Marcus Stroman’s years as a Blue Jay exchanged for the “7” on his New York Mets jersey.

Other than that, it’s business as usual for the traded — or spurned (take your pick on the description) — starter with whom the Jays parted ways this past Sunday.

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The brash, at-times bordering on cocksure ace won’t deny his frustration at the demise of a franchise that he feels just three years ago electrified a city and a nation, much as the NBA Raptors did this spring.

And while maintaining he’s no longer bitter, Stroman is certainly passionate and pointed on how things unravelled, both for the team at large and for his own relationship with the Jays front office.

“Nobody’s left,” Stroman said when we talked about the purge that has claimed him and so many others from those recent playoff appearances. “It seems like (management) wanted to get rid of some people, get everybody out and just start their own regime. So it’s a business. It is what it is.