NEW YORK — Noah Syndergaard just may have the filthiest stuff of any pitcher in baseball. That's a subjective call, of course. But there is a way to measure this too.
The Mets rookie pitcher set a record of sorts when he completed his 2015 regular season Saturday. He will go down with the highest average fastball velocity of any starting pitcher, minimum 100 innings pitched, in any season since Fangraphs began tracking it in 2002.
Syndergaard averaged 97.1 mph this season. Which is really just kind of astounding. According to Brooks Baseball, Syndergaard averaged 97.