Free agent right-hander Noah Syndergaard signed a one-year, $21 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday.
Syndergaard was extended an $18.4 million qualifying offer from the New York Mets last week but decided to test the free-agent market.
The 29-year-old missed the entire 2020 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery before enduring setbacks in his rehabilitation. He returned to the Mets in September and made two starts, posting an 0-1 record while pitching just two innings.
Syndergaard is 47-31 with a 3.32 ERA in 121 career appearances (120 starts) with New York. He made the All-Star team with the Mets in 2016, his second season. He finished that campaign with 14 wins and a 2.60 ERA, both career bests.
Syndergaard, a first-round draft pick of Toronto in 2010, was traded to the Mets in December 2012 in a seven-player deal that saw R.A. Dickey, fresh off a Cy Young-winning season in New York, head to the Blue Jays.
–Field Level Media
