Soothsaying for Sixteen: Jacob deGrom

[Edgy MD]

Hey, I've been the best pitcher on this staff for two years, and I'm still not getting opening day. Oh, but you're old for a third-year pitcher. Oh, but you're a post-op surprise. Oh, but you never gave fanbois in Baseball America never got high minor league prospect rankings to drool over.

Shut up. It makes me uncomfortable. All I do is deGrominate. And the rest of that is scarcely relevant and frankly kind of creepy. I intend to deGrominate further in 2016, and you can feel free to disagree. What do you think?

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[MFS62]

Are his aches and pains this Spring something to be concerned about?
I think not. They're the typical Spring Training ouchies, as muscles get back into shape.
He will work his arse off to get the ace label on this talented staff.
The results?
18-6, 2.67, 8.7 K/IP 1.14 WHIP.

Later

[Vic Sage]

His fastball is averaging 91-92 so far this spring. That's a significant drop off from his normal 95+. Maybe its just ST, and the 200+ IP he threw last year are having no lasting effect. Or maybe...

I'll split the difference between DeGrominator and an average SPer... 15-10 / 3.20 ERA / 175 K

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Prediction: Daniel Warthen deGrom, born April 6 at 2:30 am, 7 pounds, 7 oz.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Prediction: Daniel Warthen deGrom, born April 6 at 2:30 am, 7 pounds, 7 oz.

... and with a lot of hair!

[Guest themetfairy]

Frayed Knot wrote: Prediction: Daniel Warthen deGrom, born April 6 at 2:30 am, 7 pounds, 7 oz. ... and with a lot of hair!

If the kid is a baldie we insist on a paternity test!

[Edgy MD]

Dillon Gee would like to know just what it is you're implying.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

Vic Sage wrote: His fastball is averaging 91-92 so far this spring.

Geez, I didn't know that. Between that and that deGrom was off his game some from sometime in September 2015 through the WS .. and I don't what that's supposed to mean. But I'm paying attention. Because I know what it could mean.


This is the year that the rubber hits the road on the trend that whenever a Met right-handed pitcher wins the Rookie of the Year award, the Mets win the WS two seasons after.

[Frayed Knot]

http://nypost.com/2016/03/21/its-hard-to-feel-degrom-bliss-when-radar-gun-reads-low-90s/

[TransMonk]

Cursed.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I had a feeling this off-season that SI might cover the Mets pitchers on the Baseball Issue. But in my mind, Syndergaard was no doubt about it on that cover.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Is it really necessary to include that Johnny Manziel text circle on the cover? It's the Baseball Issue ferchrissakes. Boy have magazine covers in general gone downhill over the last 10-15 years. Every magazine cover looks the same: a celebrity and the entire table of contents as a wall of text plastered all over everything. SI included, although this cover is not that bad, at least in comparison to what SI now routinely puts out.

[TransMonk]

I also hate that SI now has regional covers. I have a gaggle of Cubs smiling back at me in my local supermarket checkout line this week on the cover of SI.

Hopefully, the curse spreads to them too.

[ashie62]

14-7 180 ip 3.11 era 1.19 whip

misses a couple of starts.

[Zvon]

[fimg=444]http://i.imgur.com/KWA1Qt0.png[/fimg] Is it really necessary to include that Johnny Manziel text circle on the cover? It's the Baseball Issue ferchrissakes. Boy have magazine covers in general gone downhill over the last 10-15 years. Every magazine cover looks the same: a celebrity and the entire table of contents as a wall of text plastered all over everything. SI included, although this cover is not that bad, at least in comparison to what SI now routinely puts out.

There's a lot of beautiful clouds down there in Florida this time of year.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Third best record on the staff, and that W number will have all MLB
teams licking their chops wanting have a third-slot with that number.