By The Chief
Two time Cy Young award winner Jacob deGrom is once again playing up to his pedigree. The former rookie of the year has been the Mets’ ace ever since his first year in the league and has never taken a step in the wrong direction. With a lifetime era of 2.61, deGrom is one of the most consistent pitchers in the league. He has finished seasons as the strikeout leader, Cy Young, rookie of the year, fewest home runs given up and era leader. But the future hall of famer has never once led the league in wins. Why is that? Easy. He’s on the Mets.
The Mets have a problematic history of bad offense. Even in 2015 when they made it to the world series, their starting lineup finished the season with a 220 batting average while their starting rotation finished at an incredible era mark of 3.35. Of course this was led by second year phenom Jake deGrom’s 2.54. But he finished the season with only 14 wins, which is only one less than his career high of 15. The reason he doesn’t get a lot of wins is simple. The Mets’ offense is awful. Jacob deGrom has a knack for coming out, pitching 7 innings, giving up 1 run on 3 hits and striking out 14 but still getting the loss. Just like he did on Wednesday night. We managed to get a word with deGrom after the Mets blew the lead that he worked so hard to get.
“Yeah, it’s cool. I don’t even care. I don’t even like getting wins. I’m not worried at all about the future when little Jack and Billy are gonna be arguing who the greatest Mets’ pitcher of all time was and when Billy says Jake deGrom Jack’s all like “no way, he had like no wins” and they forget all about me. Why would I care about that?”
Jake briskly walked past our reporters, lightly tossed his glove at the wall (which for him is still very hard), and kept going into the locker room. As long as the ace keeps pitching like he does and not caring about the outcome, he has a great future ahead of him.