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The stories out of spring training were about how Noah Syndergaard wanted to throw harder, and also about how he wanted to throw softer.
Faster fastballs but more changeups, too, all designed to make baseball’s most intimidating starting pitcher just a little bit more impossible to hit.
“I always try to raise the bar,” Syndergaard told reporters, including David Lennon of Newsday, this spring at the New York Mets’ camp in Florida.
The bar is being raised, even if Syndergaard’s fastball velocity through three starts this year has been basically right where it was a year ago.