Hey, Nineteen:Jacob deGrom

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Tim Britton presents astounding data on The Athletic today on how nearly every one of his teammates literally does his worst when deGrom is on the mound.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He should sue the Mets

--Ambler

[Edgy MD]

Does he come to speculate on why?



I mean, it'd take at least two psychologists, one specializing in organizational psych, an economist, and a statistician to separate how much is horrible luck, how much is shortcomings in the organization and their deployment and philosophy, and how much is something else, but there's probably at least something in there.

[Guest 41Forever]

I'm assuming the author takes into account that deGrom tends to pitch against the other team's ace. How many times has he gone head-to-head with Scherzer this year? That's going to have an effect in some ways, I think.

[G-Fafif]

“Small sample weirdness” and “for whatever reason”. Callaway agrees with Britton that maybe everybody is pressing.



Bullpen ERA for deGrom: 7.81

Bullpen ERA otherwise: 4.69



Team OPS for deGrom: .723

Team OPS otherwise: .777

[G-Fafif]

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I'm assuming the author takes into account that deGrom tends to pitch against the other team's ace. How many times has he gone head-to-head with Scherzer this year? That's going to have an effect in some ways, I think.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Here's the link to BRef's 2019 NL Pitching Leaders page. Click on the "expand all leaderboards" link so that each pitching category opens to show the top 10 list instead of just the leader.



https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2019-pitching-leaders.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2019-pitching-leaders.shtml



Anyways, I think it's indisputable and beyond debate that Max Scherzer, pound for pound and rate-wise, has been the NL's best pitcher this season. But youse can check and decide for yourselves. deGrom rates higher than Scherzer according to some voters, because of his edge over Scherzer in Games Started -- 29 to 24 -- and, (it logically follows) in Innings Pitched -- 183 to 154. Scherzer's slowed down recently due to some injury issues where he's missed a few starts and, when used, has been under a strict pitch count limit, I think. But still, Scherzer's WAR is still higher than deGrom's even though Jake's pitched 20 more innings than Max.