Noah Syndergaard passed on a bigger deal to sign with the Dodgers because no organization is better at reviving veteran starters. Tom Verducci has a four-step guide for how L.A. can resurrect Thor’s career
for $21 million. He was traded just before the deadline and finished the year with the Phillies. His velocity and swing-and-miss stuff still didn’t come back, so it’s back to another prove-it deal, this time at a cut to $13 million . Syndergaard turned down more money for the same reason Anderson did last year: to tap into the Dodgers’ pitching wisdom and for a shot at the postseason.
Can Syndergaard get the Wash and Brush Up treatment? It’s a low-risk, high-upside buy for the Dodgers. Syndergaard is not returning to his beast mode from 2015 and ’16, when his most used pitch was a four-seam fastball at 97 mph to 98 mph. He has morphed into a ground ball pitcher with average velocity .
The Dodgers know elevated four-seamers and true spin as well as anybody. Last year Anderson, who throws 91 mph, threw elevated four-seam fastballs more than twice as often as Syndergaard did.This is tricky. Syndergaard is 30 and three years past Tommy John surgery. Probably the most he can get back at this point is 1 mph to 2 mph. But even a small uptick will help. And it should improve his changeup. Since 2019 the gap between his sinker and changeup has shrunk from 6.4 mph to 5.1 mph.
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