New York Mets: You Gotta Believe in Jacob deGrom
New York Mets ace pitcher Jacob deGrom is on the injured list with a cranky elbow. Amazins fans can rest easy, he’ll be back.
New York Mets pitcher Jacob DeGrom won the coveted Cy Young Award last year with stats that were nothing but powerful. Last year he was 10-9 in the win-loss column with a career-best ERA of 1.70. The ten wins were impressive but the ERA is amazing.
It was a good enough ERA to take over sole possession of 87th best ever in the ranks of single-season ERA’s (Baseball Reference). This is very impressive seeing how he passed men like Rube Foster, Walter Johnson, and Sandy Koufax. He was simply spectacular.
New Year New Problems
DeGrom this year hasn’t been good. He’s 2-2 with an ERA of 3.68 and will some time as he deals with an elbow injury that has been bothering him. He left the team in St. Louis to fly back to New York to get his elbow looked at. DeGrom threw some long toss and his arm felt pretty good he said. Hopefully, he doesn’t have to get an MRI and that it is nothing series that requires surgery.
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Chris Flexen started in place of DeGrom on Saturday. It’ll be Flexen’s first chance to flex his muscles as a starter in the young season. He is 3-8 in his young career with a hard to look at 8.45 ERA over those 11 starts. Unfortunately, he didn’t pitch well enough to turn the game over to Jeurys Familia and Edwin Diaz to close it out. The good thing is that the Mets are still a game over .500 so even with all this adversity, they are winning ball games.
Cy Young Curse
Anyone who thinks that DeGrom will be cursed for the entire year will be sadly mistaken. DeGrom is 2-2 which really isn’t that bad. There is plenty of time left. Heck, there are still 144 games left and probably 15-18 starts still to be pitched by DeGrom.
I encourage New York Mets fans to take the beginning of this season as a grain of salt. Believe in DeGrom. He’s meant so much to the franchise the last few years during a time where Mets baseball has been a joke.
Next. Edwin Diaz is the closer the Mets wanted for so long. dark
Let’s get behind the ace and give him the benefit of the doubt, he’ll be back.