Noah Syndergaard once reflected upon learning from his immature actions as a rookie that led to his captain tossing his lunch

In 2015, during spring training with the New York Mets, Noah Syndergaard spoke about an incident that helped him acquire the Major League mindset.

The incident occurred in February in the clubhouse of the New York Mets, where Syndergaard was eating lunch. At the time, the team's former captain, David Wright, had come to ask him to return to the dugout.

Hearing this, Bobby Parnell, a fellow pitcher for the Mets, took Syndergaard's lunch plate and threw it in the trash bin. 20015 was the year that Syndergaard debuted in the MLB. At the time, it shocked the pitcher, but now he looks at the incident with a different lens.

In an interview with the New York Post, the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher said the following:

“I wouldn’t really call it embarrassing.”

Noah Syndergaard added:

“I would just call it a youth learning experience for me, and it was kind of ignorant on my part. You don't need to be inside eating lunch. I didn’t see the wrong in doing so."

It has been eight years since the pitcher debuted and since the incident occurred. Syndergaard played with the Mets for six years before he left the team in 2021. He has signed a $13 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers for a year.

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After the lunch-throwing incident, Noah Syndergaard was not pleased with it. However, after looking back on it, the pitcher says he learned much from the incident.

Syndergaard said he learned the following from the incident:

“The winning attitude. That is something David talked to me about when the whole situation went down.

"It taught me how to be a student of the game a little bit more. You go out [to the bench] to try to learn something new. You don’t need to be inside eating lunch. Something could be happening that you could potentially learn from.”

Bobby Parnell was asked about his involvement in the lunch-throwing incident. He defended himself by saying:

“He is a professional guy and it’s one incident and it’s in the past, Everybody has those moments. I’ve had those moments and it’s in the past.”

According to Parnell, the two pitchers are friends now and have no hard feelings toward each other.