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Noah Syndergaard, Injured After Bulking Up, Rethinks His Training

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Noah Syndergaard is devising a new training strategy. The previous one emphasized packing more muscle onto the solid 6-foot-6 frame that had helped him earn the nickname Thor, and throttling up pitches that had already made him the hardest-throwing starter in the major leagues.

“I’m always going to try to raise that kind of bar,” he said when he showed up at spring training this year looking stronger than ever.

But Syndergaard, 24, has not appeared in a game since April 30. Instead, he has spent almost three months on the Mets’ disabled list, tending to a partly torn latissimus muscle on his right side and trying to figure out what went wrong.