About 15 teams recently watched Noah Syndergaard throw, and word is he hit the mid-90s. The Pirates are interested, per MLB insider Robert Murray. No word the Mets attended.

The Mets have done a nice job overall deepening a thin rotation and have the best NL closer, but the bridge between the starters and their closer still looks unstable, at best.

Brandon Woodruff would be a great option for the Mets, since he’ll be healthy in 2025 and presumably back to ace status. Mets president David Stearns knows him from Milwaukee.

With the prices remaining sky-high in the trade market for starters, the Orioles might consider looking more closely at free-agent starters.

Corbin Burnes is almost surely staying in Milwaukee now, and Shane Bieber seems likely to stay in Cleveland, as well. The O’s talked a lot about Dylan Cease but still don’t seem close.

The price for Cease is said by one GM (not Baltimore’s) to be “the sun and the moon.” Considering the dollar costs of free-agent starters, that may be about right.

With all the great stuff they’ve done, the Dodgers have to bring back all-time great Clayton Kershaw, don’t they?