PHOENIX — The Los Angeles Dodgers performed some actual baseball on Thursday, once they held a two inning intrasquad scrimmage. Julio Urias and Noah Syndergaard took the bump for his or her respective groups, and each seemed dominant over the 2 innings of labor.
After the scrimmage, our very personal Doug McKain caught up with Max Muncy within the clubhouse, who confronted Syndergaard within the recreation, and was notably the one place participant to get a success on a tough grounder up the center.
Muncy spoke very extremely of Syndergaard’s stuff, which he described as “heavy.”
“He seemed good,” Muncy mentioned. “Ball felt heavy, he had good life to it. He was commanding ball properly. Sadly (for him), I acquired just a little shift beater on him since there isn’t any extra shift, so it was good.”
An enormous speaking level of spring is Syndergaard’s velocity, one thing he’s misplaced since getting back from Tommy John surgical procedure. In 2016, when Syndergaard was an All-Star, his 4-seam fastball averaged 98.7 mph. Final yr, nonetheless, it averaged simply 94.1 mph.
This spring, there have been studies of him already touching 96 mph, and on Thursday, Muncy mentioned his velocity appeared fairly excessive.
“It seemed good,” Muncy mentioned. “I don’t know what the numbers have been however it felt exhausting, it felt heavy. I do know previously, going through him he’s at all times had good velo however typically the ball felt just a little gentle. It felt very heavy [on Thursday] and , he had good motion so I assumed it was good.”
Syndergaard has been placing within the work each morning of camp, fine-tuning his mechanics and ensuring his supply is correct. Anticipate him to solely proceed to enhance and get his velocity increased over the subsequent month or so earlier than the start of the season.
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