Noah Syndergaard signs a one-year deal with an angel

A healthy Noah Syndergaard could return to the dominant position he flashed for as a starting youngster, but not with the Mets. NS right-hand man agreed to the terms of a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday, join a team that has star power but lacks the pitch.

Syndergaard, 29, will present the Angels as the highest performing pitcher in the free agent class this year, but also a big risk taker. While the commitment was only one year, Los Angeles paid a heavy price, guarantees Syndergaard $21 million and sacrificed a compensatory draft option to the Mets, who extended a qualifying offer that would pay Syndergaard $18.4 million.

The deal with the Angels, first reported by ESPN and MLB Network on Monday, is announced by the angels on Tuesday after completing a physics.

In a video posted on Twitter, Syndergaard thanked Mets fans for their support and talked about the process of deciding to go forward.

“This free agent and recovery process is both eye-opening and frustrating,” he says. “I was just flattered by all the outside concerns but still couldn’t figure out what it meant, or how difficult it would be to leave New York City. But after countless days of thinking, I feel that signing with the Angels is the best thing for me at this point in my career. ”

Syndergaard joins a team that features two of the best players in baseball, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. After finishing fourth in a row in American League West, Los Angeles is operating on something of an ultimatum because Ohtani, the two-lane superstar, intimated that the team needed to start winning in order to win. make him happy in front of his free agency. in 2024.

Los Angeles has invested heavily in the offensive field in recent years, with huge commitments to Trout and third player Anthony Rendon, but this team’s launch at best has been patchy. Ohtani, who is leading 9-2 with an ERA of 3.18 (aside from hitting 46 home runs), is the team’s most efficient warm-up player and the only pitcher on the roster to make it past the 100 innings. in 2021.

At its best, Syndergaard could be the trump card the team lacks. He had an ERA of 3.32 over six seasons and averaged 9.7 shots per nine innings. As a rookie in 2015, he entered the World Series. In 2016, he was an All-Star. But things have gotten a lot worse since then.

Having bulge significantly After the 2016 season, Syndergaard only made seven appearances in 2017 because of a tear in his right latissimus muscle. And after uneven attempts in 2018 and 2019, he missed all of 2020 following Tommy John surgery. After his return, he only played twice in the final week of the 2021 season because of inflammation in his elbow while pitching.

While the Mets have shown confidence in Syndergaard by extending their qualifying offer, they don’t appear to want the added risk of wages or years, allowing the pitcher they acquired from Toronto in 2012 as a part of Trade RA Dickey in exchange for only one draft pick, 70th overall.

Showing the ability to laugh at himself, Syndergaard replied to a tweet by Jon Heyman of MLB Network, who questioned whether Syndergaard was worth the risk of a qualifying offer, by sharing a video of a scene from “Constrain Your Enthusiasm,” in which “Thanks for sharing that story,” said Larry David.