New York Mets: Yoenis Cespedes situation and more with Mike Vaccaro

The deGrom Situation

EWB: Ultimately, does Jacob deGrom stay or does he go?

MV: I’d be surprised if they traded him now, just because of the way the front office is set up. There is no notion of permanence among those three (Omar Minaya, John Ricco, J.P. Ricciardi). I just think it’s too big of a deal for a three-headed general manager to pull off.

Look I do think there is going to be a new guy in charge come October or November, whether it will be one of these three guys or somebody from the outside. It would be terrible to not let that person decide what your most valuable assets are, what your tradeable assets are and what your untradable assets are.

I really do think that all of those things conspire to him staying around.

EWB: Have you ever seen anyone as unlucky as deGrom this year?

MV: Not quite to this extent. I know Felix Hernandez won a Cy Young award one year when he was dominant. I’m sure that at this point deGrom would say “Where do I sign?” for thirteen wins.

I grew up watching Tom Seaver lose a lot of 2-1 and 1-0 games. I don’t think they were anywhere close to the number that Jacob has been victimized by. I know in Matt Harvey‘s first heyday in 2013 it seemed like the Mets were always involved in 1-0 and 2-1 games and they didn’t always go Harvey’s way.

To answer your question, I mean I think we just saw that deGrom is the first guy to make over 20 starts, have a less than 2.00 ERA and have five victories. I think the second highest total is seven. That tells you something about what kind of hard luck he’s been dealing with all year.