Noah Syndergaard reportedly refuses to sign contract to protest offer near MLB minimum

Noah Syndergaard has reportedly refused to sign his contract offer from the Mets to protest his raise from last season.
Coming off a season in which he went 14-9 with a 2.60 ERA and 10.7 Ks per nine innings, the hard-throwing right-hander deserved a raise.


But the salary bump he got, from $503,375 to $605,550 per year, is peanuts in today's market for a pitcher of Syndergaard's caliber (the MLB minimum for 2017 is $535,000).


Syndergaard is not yet eligible for arbitration, so the Mets hold all the cards in their relationship. After they announced Syndergaard was the only one of 21 Mets players not yet eligible for arbitration who had refused to 2017 contract terms, and the team had renewed his contract, the New York Daily News reported Syndergaard had not signed his contract.


Fellow Mets starter Jacob deGrom used a similar tactic last season to protest his contract offer. Both Syndergaard and deGrom share the same agent, Brodie Van Wagenen.

The Mets can kiss him goodbye next year.

What is his complaint? If he had a 7.56 era would he have given them money back?

Drunken Horseplayer said:

The Mets can kiss him goodbye next year.

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Hardly. He's under team control for 3 more years after this one. He needs to quit being a baby and just sign the contract. The Mets have done what every team does which is pay a player just over the minimum until they are arbitration eligible. The Cardinals were VERY generous at the beginning of Pujols' career and gave him 600K the second year and 900K the third year. This clown will make his money after he becomes eligible for arbitration, and that's how it is for everyone. STFU and pitch, you bitch.

Congrats on 500 Ks

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Syndergaard struck out Neil Walker for his 500th career strikeout. At 436 1⁄3 innings pitched for his career at that point, he is the fastest pitcher in franchise history to reach that milestone.