Noah Syndergaard took aim at his old Mets team and the political mood in New York City during an appearance on OutKick's "Tomi Lahren Is Fearless," saying the conversation around the city is just as chaotic as the baseball around his former club. The former Mets ace, who spent eight years with New York, also addressed the departures of Brandon Nimmo and Pete Alonso as the team sat languishing at the bottom of the NL East.
Syndergaard called it "kind of also ironic" that Nimmo, Alonso and Jacob deGrom were among the biggest conservatives he played for and with, even as he pointed to "the craziness that's going on in New York." He said that if he were still with the Mets or the Yankees, he'd be able to shut out the political noise and focus on playing "a kid's game in one of the greatest cities in the world."
That was the easy part of the interview. Syndergaard then turned to New York's political direction and to Zohran Mamdani, whom he described as "ran by a lunatic" before adding that he was 34 years old and could not imagine being a mayor at 33. He also said Mamdani was "like 34 years old and never really held an actual job beforehand." Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, spoke at a May Day rally in Washington Square Park on May 1, 2026.
The comments land at a time when the Mets are once again trying to justify a massive payroll with little to show for it. Syndergaard's criticism carries extra weight because he spent eight years in the organization and was once one of its most recognizable arms. The team has struggled to turn spending into results, and the latest slide has only sharpened that frustration.
For Syndergaard, the message was blunt: baseball in New York can still be a privilege, but the city itself has become something he sees as increasingly hard to recognize. Whether that lands as honest candor or another chapter in the long Mets gripe file, it leaves little doubt about where he stands on both the team and the city he once called home.
