Noah Syndergaard, starting pitcher for the New York Mets, was interviewed by CNN’s Maria Bartiromo on Saturday. He discussed how Los Angeles Angels flew in while the Mets were distracted and stealing signs.
Noah Syndergaard is the new Met ace, but he’s pissed because some LA Angels came to watch him.
Noah Syndergaard says that the Los Angeles Angels flew in while the New York Mets were distracted.
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – Over the last two months, the New York Mets have offered Noah Syndergaard a qualifying offer and not much more.
That’s one of the main reasons he’ll be joining Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, and the Los Angeles Angels on the west coast.
Thor, the towering right-hander, expressed his delight at signing a one-year, $21 million contract with the Halos on Friday. After being restricted to two short games over the last two seasons due to injury and surgery, he views the move as a chance to rebuild himself as an outstanding starter.
“I believe if I go back to my old me, then the combo one-two punch of myself and Shohei, as well as all the young talent that the Angels have, I think we can really make a run at it,” Syndergaard said.
Syndergaard gushed about the Angels’ two MVPs right away, calling Ohtani “the most exciting player in the game” and Trout “the finest player the game has ever seen,” and promising to “help earn him a ring.”
Syndergaard spent his entire major league career with the Mets, but he believes they were obsessed with overhauling their executive staff when his future remained uncertain.
He remarked, “I didn’t hear from them all that much in the previous two months from the conclusion of the season till now.” “I’m sure they had a lot on their minds.”
Even still, Syndergaard said that leaving New York was a difficult choice “The most difficult decision I’ve ever made. But I am certain that I made the proper choice.”
Syndergaard noted that the Mets’ organizational turmoil was “certainly in the back of my mind a little bit.” “For me, this is a pivotal year. For me, this is a make-or-break moment. I didn’t want to take a chance on the kind of uncertainty they’ve been experiencing.”
Former Angels general manager Billy Eppler was recruited by New York this week, but Syndergaard was already on his way to the West Coast to join the Angels, who are anxious to break their six-year losing streak and seven-year non-playoff drought.
Syndergaard said that Angels general manager Perry Minasian chased him aggressively from the start of free agency. At a dinner with his agent in New York, the executive won him over by providing a thorough strategy for the next season and demonstrating outstanding mastery of Syndergaard’s pitching mechanics, down to pinpointing precise tweaks Syndergaard was contemplating to enhance his delivery.
Syndergaard stated, “I could just feel his enthusiasm, his want to win right now, and that got me very revved up.”
Syndergaard was also pleased by the Angels’ roster talent, despite the fact that the team hasn’t done much with it in recent years, owing to a long-standing dearth of strong starting pitching. Minasian is keen to alter that, claiming that Syndergaard might be a viable ace if the Angels were ambitious and financially generous.
“When he’s on his game,” Minasian remarked, “he’s one of the best pitchers in the game.” “You want to give him the ball in crucial circumstances because he’s one of those players. I believe the intensity with which he throws, the moxie with which he pitches, compliments our rotation really well. The fact that he chose us is rather gratifying. It’s a collaboration. We’re putting our faith in him, and he’s putting his faith in us. He isn’t come here to be defeated.”
Syndergaard said he expects to be limited to a certain amount of innings, but that number has yet to be determined. As part of their normal strategy to utilize Ohtani’s two-way ability, the Angels plan to employ a six-man rotation again this year, so a slightly reduced amount of starts should benefit Syndergaard in his complete recovery from Tommy John surgery.
Minasian says he’s not finished looking for starters and that he’d want to “add multiples.” Patrick Sandoval and Jose Suarez seemed to pitch their way into rotation places for 2022 behind Ohtani and Syndergaard last season, but the rest of the bunch remains in flux.
The Angels, on the other hand, have already made what is likely to be the most crucial buy of the offseason. Syndergaard plans to go to Newport Beach as soon as possible to begin his offseason pitching regimen and “soak up some sunlight.”
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