Mets pitching coach Dave Eiland said Tuesday that his comments about Noah Syndergaard having "yet to do a whole lot" at the big league level wasn't a dig at the right-hander. Instead, it was a defense of him. And the outsized expectations that have followed him.
"Noah and I have talked," Eiland told reporters. "We have had a lot of conversation, not just about my quotes. I was defending him actually. If he doesn't go seven with one run or less, everybody is criticizing him, because he is supposed to be dominant.