On April 3rd, Thor will throw the first official pitch of the 2017 season at Citi Field for the Mets, Terry Collins confirmed today while speaking with reporters at Port St. Lucie. This is Collins’ second proclamation about Opening Day and Noah Syndergaard, but this one is the official one we had been waiting for.
Over his short career, Syndergaard has already been everything we could have hoped for and more. He’s easily been the best and most consistent Mets pitcher over the past two seasons, so this start is very much deserved.
We had him pegged as the Mets ace going into 2017 in our Mets Season in Review after he put up incredibly dominant numbers last season.