An All-Star with the Mets before Tommy John surgery, Syndergaard says the Dodgers’ reputation for getting the most out of players (pitchers in particular) was a big motivation in his signing with t…
Noah Syndergaard’s efforts to wash away the aftertaste from “a down year based off my expectations and my standards” and rediscover the thunderous power pitcher of his “Thor” days in New York led him to pitching development clinics in North Carolina and Arizona .
“What they did with Andrew Heaney last year and Tyler Anderson, I definitely want to be in that category.” Most disturbing, the Anaheim and Philadelphia versions of Syndergaard did not have his former swing-and-miss stuff. His fastball velocity dropped from an average of 97-98 mph before Tommy John surgery to 93-94 mph and he struck out just 6.3 batters per nine innings, down significantly from his 9.7 average before surgery.
“I’m not sure if my body just went into a kind of fight-or-flight to protect itself kind of thing or it was just the fact that I felt like I’d been throwing for the last three years, rehabbing,” he said. “Over the last three years, I might have only had three or four total months off. So that might have been a factor into the velocity dip. But I started going down a movement and pitching mechanics rabbit hole and was getting away from what made me great.
“The pitches I threw last year I just kind of want to throw those away because I fully intend on being a different pitcher this next year,” he said.
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