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Mets throw out rookie's lunch to teach him a lesson

Noah Syndergaard (USA TODAY Sports Images)

Noah Syndergaard (USA TODAY Sports Images)

Young Mets righty Noah Syndergaard is a pretty big deal at the team’s spring training camp in Port St. Lucie, Fla. At just 22 years old, Syndergaard is armed with high-90s heat, good control and a great curveball, and he ranks among the best prospects in the game by almost all accounts. He even comes complete with an awesome nickname: “Thor.”

But Syndergaard broke a team rule during an intrasquad game on Tuesday, and a couple Mets veterans let him know. Marc Carig of Newsday has the details:

Manager Terry Collins, meanwhile, was happy to hear that Wright spoke to Syndergaard. From the Daily News:

Terry Collins was out on the field during the incident and did not see it, but the Mets manager was pleased when he heard about it.

“You better believe it,” Collins said. “We have preached it and preached amongst the players; we are in this together. If they felt someone was violating that trust it needs to be addressed and it sounds like it was addressed.”…

“Noah may never do it again, he made a mistake, he might have seen a veteran pitcher do it once before,” Collins said. “He might not have known.”

So there’s that: Noah Syndergaard tried to eat lunch in the clubhouse when he shouldn’t have been eating lunch in the clubhouse, so David Wright scolded him and Bobby Parnell threw out his lunch. People will make a big deal out of it because people make a big deal out of almost everything that happens to the Mets, but it doesn’t seem like a terribly big deal.

The big question is what Syndergaard was eating, and why Parnell doesn’t know about refrigeration as a means to avoid wasting food.

UPDATE: Lunch was probably delicious.

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