Noah Syndergaard. Thor. Once thought of as one of the best pitchers in baseball. A No. 1 pick (38th overall) of the Blue Jays in 2010, traded to the Mets for the reigning Cy Young winner (R.A. Dickey), then posting several good seasons in New York, even while missing much of 2017 with a lat injury.
Then there was Tommy John surgery. He didn’t pitch at all in 2020 and made only two late-season appearances in 2021.
Signed by the Angels as a free agent before 2022, Thor made 15 decent starts in Anaheim before being traded to the Phillies, where he didn’t do much in the regular season.