A nice throw by Noah Syndergaard to Trevor Bauer for how he chose the Dodgers over the Mets as a free agency turned into a crowd on social media scattered between the two pitchers.
Syndergaard, who is recovering from Tommy John’s surgery, on Friday retweeted a post on the Mets’ official Twitter account to shoot Bauer, who signed a three-year, $ 102 million deal with the Dodgers earlier this year. month. Retweeting the original post, photos of himself and Rob Gsellman laughing at spring training, Syndergaard wrote, “And then he said …” I’m sorry I chose another team, but I’ll give the your charities! “”
It was a reference to Bauer apologizing to Mets fans for inadvertently trolling them through a mistake that led to Mets autograph merchandise advertising on his personal website hours before rejecting the franchise. He also agreed to donate $ 10,000 to four New York-based charities.
Syndergaard’s excavations did not go well with Bauer and his camp. Cy Young winner Rachel Luba’s agent responded to Syndergaard’s message by tweeting, “Lol it was an attempt to ‘shadow’ … ‘(bewildered-faced emoji).”
Bauer’s response was not so jovial.
“When mistakes are made, you try to correct them,” he wrote. “I know you wouldn’t know anything about making mistakes. I hope rehabilitation treats you well. It was good to see you shooting again.
It didn’t stop here.
Bauer, who is not without controversy in interacting with fans on social media, posted screenshots of aggressive responses Syndergaard wrote in an Instagram video about him throwing a shirtless shirt last week.
In them, the 28-year-old right-hander responded to a fan who questioned him by posting shirtless images a year after he did so last spring before he needed surgery and missed all of 2020. Syndergaard concluded his response by writing, ” It’s wet in Florida and I’m chilling you in. In another, after a fan wrote I should put a shirt in my tool bag, ”Syndergaard took the person’s wife into the conversation.
“Show it to your wife,” he wrote. “With the guarantee that I wouldn’t want you to put on a shirt for me … you could really leave it at that, but she’ll think of me.”
Bauer, 30, wrote that Syndergaard should “treat fans better” and that “there is no room for personal insults, especially about someone’s wife.”
The former Reds and Indians pitcher has been away from a social media saint. In 2019, he harassed a college student on Twitter after she called him her “least favorite person in sports.” Bauer responded by writing “Welcome to the fan club” and tweeted at least 17 times, directly to the women or others about the discussion for three days. These messages included a photo he found of his chronology of his drink before he reached the legal age of 21. Bauer later apologized and promised to “exercise responsibility for my public platform with more responsibility in the future.”
Syndergaard responded to Bauer’s post of his Instagram exchanges on Friday by writing “keep digging” along with a GIF of someone digging a hole. Bauer’s response was, “See you at the bottom.” Thor then told him to “bring a drone and your mix of music and that’s it. #Takeajokebro” – referring to past Bauer controversies. Bauer wrote, “You have a date (catch emoji of hands) “.
At least one of Syndergaard’s teammates found the whole exchange fun.
“Twitter is an honest joke. Lol (shoulder emoji), ”pitcher Marcus Stroman responded to Twitter along with a GIF of a man flying a drone.
The Mets and Syndergaard won’t see Bauer and the Dodgers for the first time until August, starting with a three-game series at Citi Field.