The schedule shows an off day but that doesn’t mean the Dodgers and Andrew Friedman are taking any time off ahead of the trade deadline. The Mets have become open to the idea of trading away Noah Syndergaard and the Dodgers are interested. That doesn’t mean the Dodgers will go into a full pursuit of Thor but it is newsworthy.
Noah will turn twenty-seven years old next month and is in the midst of a down season. He currently has a 4.33 ERA and a 1.26 WHIP. Syndergaard’s strikeout rate per nine innings has dropped from 9.