A friendly punch thrown by Noah Syndergaard at Trevor Bauer for how he chose the Dodgers over the Mets at the free agency turned into a social media feud between the two pitchers.
Syndergaard, who is recovering from Tommy John’s surgery, retweeted a post from Mets’ official Twitter account on Friday to try to hit Bauer, who signed a $ 102 million three-year deal with the Dodgers earlier this month . Retweeting the original post, pictures of him and Rob Gsellman laughing at spring training, Syndergaard wrote: “And then he said …“ I’m sorry to have chosen another team, but I’m going to donate to your charities! ””
It was a reference to Bauer apologizing to Mets fans for unintentionally trolling them, thanks to a flaw that led to the Mets’ autographed merchandise listing on his personal website hours before he rejected the franchise. He also agreed to donate $ 10,000 to four New York-based charities.
Syndergaard’s excavation did not go well with Bauer and his camp. Cy Young winner’s agent Rachel Luba responded to Syndergaard’s post by tweeting, “Lol, that was an attempt to” cast shadow “… (puzzled face emoji).”
Bauer’s response was not so cheerful.
“When mistakes are made, you try to correct them,” he wrote. “I know that you wouldn’t know anything about making mistakes. I hope rehab is treating you well. It was nice to see you playing back. “
He didn’t stop there.
Bauer, who is not without controversy interacting with fans on social media, posted screenshots of aggressive responses that Syndergaard wrote in a video on his Instagram playing shirtless last week.
In them, the 28-year-old righty replied to a fan by questioning him by posting shirtless images a year after doing this last spring, before needing surgery and missing 2020. Syndergaard concluded his answer by writing: “It’s wet in Florida and I I’m relaxing you idiot. “In another, after a fan wrote that he should put a shirt in the” tool bag u “, Syndergaard brought the person’s wife into the conversation.
“Show your wife,” he wrote. “Guaranteed that she wouldn’t want me to put on a shirt … you can actually have sex before that, but she’ll be thinking about me.”
Bauer, 30, wrote that Syndergaard should “treat fans better” and that “there is no place for personal insults, especially about someone’s wife”.
The former Reds and Indians pitcher is far from a social media saint. In 2019, he harassed a college student on Twitter after she called him “less 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 posts included a photo he found on her drinking timeline before reaching the legal age of 21. Bauer later apologized and vowed to “exercise responsibility for my public platform more responsibly in the future”.
Syndergaard responded to Bauer’s post on 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 end.” Thor then told him to “bring a drone and its mixtape and it is agreed. #takeajokebro ”- in reference to Bauer’s previous controversies. Bauer wrote: “You got a date (handshake emoji).”
At least one of Syndergaard’s teammates found the whole conversation amusing.
“Twitter is just a joke, honestly. Lol (emoji shrugging), ”replied launcher Marcus Stroman on Twitter along with a GIF of a man flying on a drone.
The Mets and Syndergaard will not have their first look at Bauer and the Dodgers until and August, starting with a series of three games at Citi Field.