35 Years of Misery & Counting
Honestly, considering how long it took for him to do it, i don’t care if someone had to convince him to do it. Thanking the Mets fans who supported deGrom since day one was just the right thing to do.
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DeGrom was always adamany that he was going to opt-out of his contract so that was the biggest clue that he no longer wanted to be in NY. Now he has his $$$ and will pitch for a 68-win team in Texas. Good for him.
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I’d give deGrom 5 years/$225M with some incentives and be extra careful with him when he pitches.
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While Brandon Nimmo’s catch from last night’s Dodgers game should definitely make the Top 10 list when it comes to the Mets. I can quickly state that the Agee and Swoboda catches during the 1969 World Series, the Endy Chavez catch to rob a homer from Scott Rolen in the 2006 NLCS and the Beltran catch on top of that old hill in Houston were all better. And that’s just off the top of my head.
When deGrom does come back they’re going to have to be so careful with him.
I’m very skeptical of deGrom being able to come back healthy by June. Save him till after the All-Star game imo.
I know that Megill likes to keep it cool, but this is easily the biggest start of his career.
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Jacob deGrom’s season is already on hold. The ace right-hander is headed to the injured list for an extended stretch, after an MRI exam on Friday revealed a stress reaction on his right scapula. DeGrom, according to general manager Billy Eppler, will discontinue throwing for up to four weeks, after which he will have to build up to pitch.
The diagnosis came less than a week before the Mets are scheduled to open their season, on Thursday in Washington. The vaunted 1-2 punch of deGrom-Max Scherzer will have to wait.
This is why I never got too excited about the vaunted 1-2 punch of degrom and Scherzer, because deGrom is just so injury-prone at this point. Now with this news I wouldn’t expected deGrom to be back before the All-Star break, if at all.
Off hand, the Santana no-hitter, the last game from that 3-game sweep of the Nationals in September2019 and sweeping the Cubs in the 2015 NLCS to make it to the World Series are my Top 3.
This continues to amaze me. How the Mets bats go silent seemingly a majority of the time when their ace deGrom is on the mound. And last night the Braves had Mike Foltynewicz on the hill, their 4th or 5th starter with a 5-plus ERA coming in and they could only get two hits off the guy in 7 innings with deGrom himself provided them with their only run via a HR…smh
As rough as things have been for the Mets, if they can’t get consistency out of deGrom, they’re going to have serious issues.
Wilson Ramos, who went 2-for-4, was Friday’s catcher, and after what transpired it wouldn’t be a surprise if Tomás Nido is behind the plate for deGrom’s next start.
DeGrom is 2-0 with a 0.43 ERA in three starts pitching to Nido, but is now 1-5 with a 6.39 ERA when pitching to other catchers.
Callaway had no regrets about sticking with deGrom as the game got away from him.
“He’s your ace,” the manager said. “He’s gonna throw his pitches. You’re gonna win or lose with him. That’s the right thing to do. He’s the leader of the staff and he gets that chance.”
Listen, deGrom still has to make the pitches, but when you look at the difference in results on deGrom between when Nido catches him and when Wilson Ramos does, it’s worth having a conversation about.
