Noah Syndergaard attempts to rewrite Dodgers history in bonkers new profile

At just 33, former New York Mets rookie phenom Noah Syndergaard is already out of the baseball. The last time he saw major league action was back in 2023, when the Los Angeles Dodgers signed him to a one-year, $13 million prove-it deal.

Syndergaard did not, in fact, prove it. He pitched in 12 mostly disastrous starts for a 7.16 ERA before being traded to the Cleveland Guardians for Amed Rosario. The Dodgers were so eager to get Syndergaard out of town that they sent cash along with him.

Signing him was a gamble in the first place — his breakout campaign in 2016 was already in the rearview mirror — but the Dodgers love their reclamation projects, and Syndergaard hadn't been a total disaster in 2022 with the Los Angeles Angels and Philadelphia Phillies, so there was hope that he could be fixed.

As it turns out, Syndergaard didn't really want to be fixed, at least not by the Dodgers. After being traded to Cleveland, he said, "For the last two years I’ve had a lot of cooks in the kitchen, a lot of people thinking they can come out and fix me. [...]. I just think (I should) go out there and not really listen to what people think I should and should not be doing, but just do what feels good and natural to me."

He went on to pitch five Guardians starts for a 4.94 ERA before being DFA'ed and then released in late August.

In a recent GQ profile this week, Syndergaard made it clear that he still holds a grudge, saying, "I would be the first player in history that the Dodgers made progressively worse."

This guy stinks.

Noah Syndergaard is still salty about his failed year with the Dodgers after flaming out of baseball

The interview is, in a phrase, wide-ranging, and has less to do than his career than what he's been doing in quasi-retirement (Syndergaard hasn't closed the door on trying to make an MLB comeback, though he already tried that with the Chicago White Sox last year and it didn't work). He's become quite politically active and is something of a health nut, to put it mildly.

But it's clear throughout the interview that Syndergaard still believes that he was robbed of a more successful career, and he's still happy to blame the Dodgers for it, even though he resisted internal coaching and instead employed his own private coordinator.

The guy was just never the same after Tommy John. It happens. Truly talented pitchers learn how to pivot and overcome it — usually by accepting help from those who know best. The fact that Syndergaard is still looking to point fingers three years removed from his last major league pitch should tell you something.

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