On Friday, the Los Angeles Dodgers took a chance on Noah Syndergaard and agreed to a one-year, $13 million deal with him.
Noah Syndergaard has signed with the Dodgers
According to Matthew Moreno of Dodger Blue, Kershaw made a comment on Monday regarding the veteran colleague: “We’re excited to have him, and we need him quite frankly,”
“The Dodgers always see stuff. They always see stuff. I’m sure he’s got some type of analytical number or some type of something that they feel they can get his velo[city] back to where it was.”
In 25 starts, Syndergaard split the 2022 season between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Angels, posting a 10-10 record and 3.94 ERA. He played for the Mets for the first seven years of his career, with the best year being 2018 with a 13-4 record and 3.03 ERA.
The Dodgers’ team is taking a risk by signing a pitcher who hasn’t looked like the same pitcher since having Tommy John surgery in 2020. The team has already lost one of the best rotations in baseball. With the exception of two innings pitched for the New York Mets at the end of the season, the procedure prevented him from playing for the entire 2021 season.
In the 2022 postseason, the Dodgers were defeated by the San Diego Padres in the NLDS, but Clayton Kershaw seems to believe that the team has what it takes to exact revenge the following year.
