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The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

Edgy MD Mar 23 2017 01:24 PM

The tough part about identifying with a superhero/Norse deity, even in jest, is that you've got to live up to it. Else, you're setting yourself up for a fall. I mean, set high standards for yourself, ask your team to hold you to them, but don't raise expectations with the public. Unless you're me. I'm Noah Syndergaard, and I'm last year's most valuable Met, no matter what anybody tells you. And we've played around with some big talk and fun talk and costumes and nicknames, and shit and so far that's worked out. But pride cometh before a fall. So I spent the offseason beefing up like a football player, so as not to have any fall. I'm your opening day starter, anchoring a staff of talented pre-arbitration starters. Will I continue to prosper, summoning mighty bolts of lighting from my arm and swinging a fearsome hammer, or will that persona kinda blow up in my face like it did Harvey? Here's hoping that the other guys all step up and take some of the pressure off, but the pressure's on. What will come to pass? [fimg=360:yvopte7r]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/05/23/sports/23METSweb1/23METSweb1-master768.jpg[/fimg:yvopte7r] [fimg=360:yvopte7r]http://www.trbimg.com/img-563544f2/turbine/la-sp-sn-noah-syndergaard-might-be-suspended-joe-torre-wont-say-20151031[/fimg:yvopte7r] [fimg=344:yvopte7r]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/05/12/sports/12mets/12mets-master768.jpg[/fimg:yvopte7r] [fimg=376:yvopte7r]http://image.nj.com/home/njo-media/width960/img/njcom_photos/photo/2015/10/19/-4f0e7f9eed117382.JPG[/fimg:yvopte7r]

Benjamin Grimm Mar 23 2017 01:48 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

He'll lead the Mets (and perhaps the league) in Cy Young votes. Will repeat as Schaefer Mets Pitcher of the Year.

Ceetar Mar 23 2017 01:50 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

Clayton who?

seawolf17 Mar 23 2017 01:53 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

23-0, 1.74. Wins the first of his seven consecutive Cy Young Awards.

Ceetar Mar 23 2017 03:09 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

Ceetar wrote: Clayton who? this is the short answer. the long 222.2 IP. 10.7 k/9. 1.95 bb/9. 2.22 ERA. 7.5 fWAR. Cy Young. 9th in MVP voting. Kills someone in Game of Thrones. Gets the cast of the Avengers to ride with him on the World Series float. Pitches a 1-hitter, the hit will be leading off the 8th and will be off the bat of Angel Pagan. Leads the league in strikeouts. Max speed on a pitch is 101.6 (was 101.4 in 2016)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2017 04:02 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

I'm positive on Syndergaard 95%, but that 5% of me that's not sold is convinced his high profile and lofty expectations are screaming for a serious humbling. 95% projection: 19-6, 2.33, Cy Young Award, 250 Ks in 210 IP 5% projection: 2.3, 4.33, Shoulder surgery

Ashie62 Mar 23 2017 10:10 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

200 IP 250 K 2.33 18 W CY YOUNG

MFS62 Mar 24 2017 12:49 AM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

17-7, 2.22, 9.3 K/9 IP, 2.2 BB/ 9IP Gets immediately elected to the Mets Hall of Fame by hitting Chase Utley square in the gonads with a 100 MPH pitch. Later

Lefty Specialist Mar 24 2017 01:02 AM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

18-8, 2.50, 3 HR's.

41Forever Mar 24 2017 01:56 AM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

MFS62 wrote: 17-7, 2.22, 9.3 K/9 IP, 2.2 BB/ 9IP Gets immediately elected to the Mets Hall of Fame by hitting Chase Utley square in the gonads with a 100 MPH pitch. Later This made me laugh out loud. Nice one.

d'Kong76 Mar 28 2017 12:25 AM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

Some tabloid headline writer will beat the Sy-Young drum at least once because Noah is Cy-bound in 2017!

batmagadanleadoff Mar 29 2017 04:14 AM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

Here's Syndergaard's write-up from Baseball Prospectus' 2016 Annual, published just before the start of the 2016 season: Just for fun, let's try to pick apart Syndergaard's debut season. His whiff rate on the fastball is surprisingly low, but then again, nobody hits it hard, either. His fastball command is more of a choice between "the high one" and "the low one", although he doesn't walk anyone and at 98 mph, who cares? Um, there exists an unflattering picture of him as a pudgy middle schooler. Okay, this is impossible. There is no model by which Syndergaard does not become a star. And here's his write-up from this year's BP: The John Smoltz to Madison Bumgarner's Jack Morris in the epic National League Wild Card Game, "Thor" already seems like a long-established ace of aces. But 2016 was actually his first full major-league season, and he's clearly still developing new super powers. For example, in spring training, Syndergaard concentrated on refining a hard slider that he'd occasionally thrown with flashes of brilliance in the latter parts of 2015. By the time the regular season came around, that new slider was one of the most devastating pitches in baseball, sitting in the low-90s and touching 95. The only restrictions on how good Syndergaard can be are those of the human body, because he's doing things with a baseball that nobody else has ever done. BONUS MATERIAL: excerpt from the BP 2016 Mets team article: It thunders down from the mountaintop, rustles through the forests and echoes through the city streets. A name whispered in fear, chanted in exultation or shouted in glory: Syndergaard. Syndergaard. It's almost too perfect. The sound of it alone evokes only the epic. Syndergaard is a towering explosion or a nightmarish tempest or the massive volcano quaking on the outskirts of the village. The name could only describe something devastating and awesome, some freakish and unforseen force wreaking havoc on the mundane world we thought we knew. Then you look at the guy, and he's absolutely all those things: Syndergaard, 6'6" and 240 pounds of pure lightning with bolts blistering from his arm, his eyes and the back of his cap. The Mets' 24 year-old righty operates with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, mixing the hardest fastball of any big-league starter with a speed-metal slider and a curveball Terry Collins long ago named "the hook from hell". He looks like a create-a-player borne of a heavythumbed gamer indiscriminate with the attributes, or an emissary from some post-human species evolved to master baseball. And he comes, of course, with perhaps the majors' most perfect nickname: Noah Syndergaard is Thor, the hammer-wielding Norse god of thunder, in scale, in appearance and in bravado. His mortal form, somehow available to the Mets as only one part of the deal that put R.A. Dickey on the Blue Jays after the 2012 season, pitches among us now for as long as we can stave off Ragnarok. Only, and obviously, there's a catch: Noah Syndergaard is not actually immortal, hard as that sometimes is to believe. He is a pathetic human like the rest of us, bigger and stronger certainly, but impervious to neither pain nor injury, nor all the impossibly small fluctuations in execution that account for fairly large swings in on-field performance. And so after Syndergaard steamrolled the National League for most of 2016's first half, he appeared, due to regression or fatigue or impairment or esposure or just plain bad luck, at least a bit more mortal in the second. It might require some squinting -- Syndergaard had an excellent season, all told -- but his walk rate ticked up and the strikeouts ticked down. With that came murmurs again of some nebulous arm issue. A bone spur, specifically, though one the Mets downplayed and have continued to downplay. Perhaps it's true. Maybe whatever irregularity exists in Syndergaard's right elbow did not limit him in any way last season. Maybe it never will, as there's no conclusive way to distinguish the impact of injury from the myriad other factors that might affect a pitcher's performance. But given the Mets' recent history, and the nature of pitching in general, it'd seem downright silly to assume Syndergaard's full and uncompromised health in 2017 and dismiss any worried whispers.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 30 2017 08:42 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm positive on Syndergaard 95%, but that 5% of me that's not sold is convinced his high profile and lofty expectations are screaming for a serious humbling. 95% projection: 19-6, 2.33, Cy Young Award, 250 Ks in 210 IP 5% projection: 2.3, 4.33, Shoulder surgery Bump

Ashie62 Apr 30 2017 09:32 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

JCL has been hired by the Mets as Chief Medical Director.

Zvon May 01 2017 03:30 AM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

Is there anything on the board detailing this clubhouse episode between Noah and Jay Horowitz? I've heard bits and pieces but not the whole story.

Edgy MD Oct 26 2017 02:25 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

[tweet:2gviqzph]https://twitter.com/Noahsyndergaard/status/923268557139357696[/tweet:2gviqzph]

Benjamin Grimm Oct 26 2017 02:28 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

I think the Mets should hire the little girl on the left as their new trainer.

Centerfield Oct 26 2017 02:29 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

Seconds later, the chains on Noah's swing broke, Noah fell and shattered his pelvis.

cooby Oct 26 2017 04:55 PM Re: The Edge of Seventeen: Noah Syndergaard

Wouldn't be surprised