Noah Syndergaard Signs One-Year Deal With Angels

Los Angeles has invested heavily in offense over recent years, with huge commitments to Trout and third baseman Anthony Rendon, but the team’s pitching has been patchwork at best. Ohtani, who went 9-2 with a 3.18 E.R.A. (in addition to hitting 46 home runs), was the team’s most effective starter and the only pitcher on the roster to surpass 100 innings in 2021.

Trout endorsed the Syndergaard signing on Twitter, replying to a tweet about it with four fire emojis.

At his best, Syndergaard could be the ace the team has lacked. He has a 3.32 E.R.A. over six seasons and has averaged 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings. As a rookie in 2015, he was pitching in the World Series. In 2016, he was an All-Star. But things have been far rockier since.

Having bulked up considerably after the 2016 season, he made only seven starts in 2017 because of a torn right latissimus muscle. And after uneven efforts in 2018 and 2019, he missed all of 2020 because of Tommy John surgery and made only two token appearances in the final week of the 2021 season because of inflammation in his pitching elbow.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/sports/baseball/noah-syndergaard-angels.html