{"id":699109,"date":"2026-05-14T23:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:03:17","slug":"former-met-noah-syndergaard-said-pete-alonso-is-a-trumper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699109\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Met Noah Syndergaard said Pete Alonso is a Trumper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>Pete Alonso. Photo: Rich Graessle\/Icon Sportswire<\/p>\n

Noah Syndergaard, who was a 13-game winner with the New York Mets in 2018, but was out of baseball five years later, at the tender age of 30, after blowing his arm out from all those max-effort pitches, popped up on a podcast with MAGA influencer Tomi Lahren this week.<\/p>\n

You can see where this is going.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t talk to this Tomi Lahren influencer person without it being political.<\/p>\n

Syndergaard didn\u2019t disappoint in that respect \u2013 the highlight of the interview was his claim that former Mets teammates Brandon Nimmo and Pete Alonso wanted out the Big Apple because of the election of Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like, those two guys are some of the biggest conservatives I\u2019ve played with, as well as Jacob deGrom. They wanted out of the craziness that\u2019s going on in New York,\u201d said Syndergaard, who outed himself as a Trumper last year when he accepted an invite to serve on the President\u2019s Council on Physical Fitness.<\/p>\n

In the interview with Lahren, Syndergaard, who last pitched in MLB in 2023 \u2013 he was 2-6 with a 6.50 ERA in 18 starts with Cleveland and the Los Angeles Dodgers \u2013 blamed the Mets\u2019 struggles this season on an early-season photo op with Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate saying it, but at the end of the day, the Mets are going to Met, and\u00a0I think I\u2019m allowed to kind of say that, because I bled orange and blue for eight years, made it to the World Series with them,\u201d Syndergaard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust kind of disappointed to see who they\u2019re inviting into their clubhouse, and be, like, just the, the lack of success that they\u2019re having, this doesn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense. We have a huge payroll, and it\u2019s not great dividends for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK, Thor.<\/p>\n

There were rumblings last season about the Mets clubhouse being divided over politics, which is why it was said by some around the team that Nimmo put on the trade block in the postseason, because of a rift with star shortstop Francisco Lindor that was specifically over Trump.<\/p>\n

Alonso, for his part, left New York as a free agent to sign with the Baltimore Orioles, who snatched Alonso off the market for $155 million over five years.<\/p>\n

The Mets, for their part, did not even make a formal offer to Alonso, which would seem to cast doubt on Syndergaard\u2019s story about Alonso leaving because he wanted out of town.<\/p>\n

The Mets didn\u2019t want him back; on the flip, the O\u2019s backed up a Brinks truck to his front door.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t speak with authority to Alonso\u2019s political stance; I did run his name through the Googler, and the only thing about his political beliefs was a story to how he dealt with a troll who had taken issue with his outspoken stance in favor of the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet out of here with that ignorance,\u201d Alonso answered the troll, who had posted \u201cAll Lives Matter\u201d as a response to one of his posts. \u201cOf course everybody\u2019s life matters, but we\u2019re focusing on the widespread racism in our country right now. The question is, why does the Black Lives Matter movement bother you enough to have to say all lives matter?\u201d<\/p>\n

Seems here that Syndergaard is maybe making Alonso out to be a Trumper here to fit his political narrative.<\/p>\n

Syndergaard, later in the podcast, expressed his admiration for anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, internet famous for once having finished in fifth place in a college swimming race, and went to bat for disgraced former Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer, suspended from MLB in 2022 amid sexual assault allegations, to get another crack at a job in the bigs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just surprised some teams aren\u2019t taking a chance on him. Apparently, he\u2019s still really good,\u201d Syndergaard said.<\/p>\n

Fact check: Bauer was 4-10 with a 4.51 ERA in Japan in 2025, after a dominant 10-0, 2.48 ERA year in the Mexican League in 2024.<\/p>\n

Bauer has rebounded in 2026, with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League, with a 4-1 record, 1.41 ERA and 0.81 WHIP.<\/p>\n

The Atlantic League is considered at a level between Double-A and Triple-A in the MiLB system.<\/p>\n

Trevor Bauer is 35 years old.<\/p>\n

His track record since the suspension is akin to that of Kenny Powers.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s probably a reason we don\u2019t listen to the Noah Syndergaards of the world on matters of import.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Alonso. Photo: Rich Graessle\/Icon Sportswire Noah Syndergaard, who was a 13-game winner with the New York Mets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":["post-699109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-orioles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116575430515683616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}