6:12pm: The MRI revealed inflammation in deGrom’s right lat, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com reports. While deGrom will take a few days off from throwing, the Mets don’t plan to place him on the injured list.
4:25pm: DeGrom will undergo an MRI this afternoon, manager Luis Rojas announced (via Healey).
4:04pm: The Mets have scratched ace Jacob deGrom from his scheduled start Tuesday because of “right side tightness,” Tim Healey of Newsday was among those to tweet. Righty Miguel Castro will take the ball against the Cardinals in deGrom’s place.
A major injury to deGrom could have a crippling effect on the Mets’ chances of contending for a playoff spot, but it doesn’t appear this is an especially serious issue, Jeff Passan of ESPN hears. Rather, deGrom may miss just one start, per Passan.
After a highly active offseason, the Mets have come out flat in 2021 with an 11-12 record, but deGrom certainly isn’t to blame. The two-time National League Cy Young winner is in top form at the age of 32, having pitched to a major league-leading 0.51 ERA over five starts and 35 innings. DeGrom is also pacing all starters in strikeout rate (48 percent) and swinging-strike rate (23 percent), and his K-BB percentage (44.7) is second only to the Brewers’ Corbin Burnes.
Great. Now what
Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
Jordan Yamamoto has been pulled from his start in Syracuse
Aaaanf here comes the beginning of the end
The end of what??? They’ll be in first place soon. Lol
You’re such a tool.
95 to 103 wins!
Better than the Dodgers.
Sorry to interrupt this program, but JAVY BAEZ WALKED TODAY!!! His second walk of the year! Good job! He has a long way to go before he gets to the likely contracts that Corey Seager and Trevor Story will get, but it’s great to see Little Javy knows how to do something other than striking out.
He also made 3 errors on the day.
Shhhh… baby steps. One thing at a time. At this pace, he’ll have it figured out by the time he’s 33 or 34 when his peak is over.
He won’t sniff those contracts. Can’t hit like them.
I just searched Baez through B.Ref to check his walk totals. I guess Ref hasn’t updated his second walk this season yet. =))
Egon Spengler
Sorry to interrupt this program, but JAVY BAEZ WALKED TODAY!!
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So you are saying that the pitcher was trying to hit him with a pitch and missed 4x?
HOLY INJURIES.
what is going on this season? everyday theres a huge list of players scratched or that end up on the IL
They played a shortened season last year and are trying to fire on all cylinders this year. It’s going to happen all season sadly.
With the way they’re wording it, it seems like this is a precautionary thing. If they were in the playoffs, I assume he’d pitch through this. This sounds like the Mets just protecting their ace.
As a Cardinals fan I wish him the best…but I also have a sigh of relief lol…get better soon
You’ll still be 500 at the end of the year.
.500 could win the Central (Brewers notwithstanding). Mets will finish in 4th place.
I don’t play for the Cardinals so I won’t be 500…but I’m willing to bet the cardinals will be better than 500 and ahead of the Mets
Dam why so mad he was hoping the best for the ace who you can’t even give support.
I just don’t get the hostility on this one, MetsFan. You’re starting to look less like a troll and more like a rabid dog. =)
As
Charlie Brown says Good grief!
Traded to the Padres
His back hurts from carrying the team. He’ll be fine.
Seriously. To say this man has yet to throw anything other than a quality start this season would still understate what he has done. Just two runs allowed in 35 IP. I wonder if he allowed those 2 runs only to keep his cover as a mild mannered baseball player rather than be revealed as an advanced, cybernetic android sent from the future to take over the world.
Oh no, their offense can’t afford to lose deGrom’s bat.
Wow, And Gausman and while not suggesting injury, Kershaw lasted 1 horrible inning today. As a baseball fan these injuries seem to be way out of proportion. I read a post where it was suggested that the teams are being over cautious and some of these injuries are more routine but the short season issues is causing caution everywhere. It’s a shame that these quality arms are faltering. Hopefully not as bad for deGrom though – good luck.
Degrom is ready to put up one of those once in a generation seasons where a guy K’s 350 and is unhittable. Shame he’s down. Already missed a start opening weekend
And he’ll have like a 10-12 record, too.
And only then will he understand Tom Seaver and what he went through for most of his career as a Met.
He never looked comfortable with the mound in his last start. You could see he was having trouble getting loose, even stretching after pitches late in the game. I’m guessing he is just erring on the side of caution.
What IS concerning is that this is two starts in a row that he needed extra rest. That goes back to his complete game in Colorado. He may have pitched through something in that first game after the CG or felt something in his off day regimen, left over and just isn’t feeling “right” yet. He’s in great shape, so I’m going with “Let’s not strain an oblique and give it another day or so.”
Kind of surprised they didn’t call someone up, though. Yesterday was long reliever day, so that basically eliminates three guys in Lucchesi, Reid-Foley and Gsellman. Diaz may not be available and Familia?
Tarpley, Eichkoff (sp) or Yamamoto?
Best .500 pitcher of all time.
.576 winning percentage in his career.
If we are calling that .500, then Blyleven and Niekro are in the clubhouse waiting on deGrom.
Good comps. .500 pitchers.
de Grom might win 10 games again one of these years.
72-53 lifetime for deGrom. The Mets have a losing record over his career. There is only so much a starting pitcher can do for an otherwise bad team. .
The same Mets teams de Grom has been on has had pitchers with better winning percentages than de Grom, every year.
Also, look at some of the names of pitchers that “outpitch” him… In his Cy Young year of 2019, 5 of his 11 wins were against those mighty Miami Marlins.
Losses to Kyle Gipson, Paddock, Teheran, Chase Anderson, Soroka, Lester…
LOL
Poor New Yorkers. Rudy gets raided and now this!!!!!
Seriously though, hope it’s a short stint. I’m 100 years old and it’s been a while since I’ve seen any pitcher dominate like Jake does. And as efficiently.
deGrom isn’t pitching so the Mets will score 15 runs tonight
…and give up 17…
Quite literally from putting the entire Mets roster on his back.
Direct result of manfred’s decision to make all these ridiculous changes to the game. Keep it up and you won’t need players anymore. This commissioner destroyed the league and health of our beloved players.
What are you talking about?
The stuff Manfred has done to destroy the league and the health of our beloved players. Please read more carefully.
I’m sure this will motivate the Met’s offense
Will he pitch tomorrow in a double header? I think he might…the manager might have not wanted to pitch him on a rainy night….?
He is ideal for a doubleheader. Complete game written all over it.
We all know how the Mets handle their injury information….
1. The player gets hurt. Pulled from a game
2. The team says the player is fine, just “dealing with something”.
3. An actual MRI is done
4. The team says the player has a minor injury but no IL will be needed.
5. Days go by… reporters ask about player.. player is “fine”
6. After a few days he is put on the IL retroactively but only for a “few days”
7. Player has surgery but expected to be back in a “couple weeks”
8. Player misses the rest of the season. Team fails to acknowledge this
9. Hitting coach gets fired.
10. Mets fail to make the postseason.
11. Spring training
7B-Doctor operates on the wrong arm.
12-Mets22 signs on to say that’s a great thing, because with the insurance money, they can sign Story to replace Lindor.
@JoeBrady hahah amazing and accurate
My nominee for best and most accurate post of the year.
DeGrom is in his prime and it’s getting wasted. Best to let him heal while the offense tries to sort itself. I knew Lindor would be an overpay but G*d D*mn, would have never thought he would look this lost at the plate.
Mets might need to trade Degrom to unload Lindor’s albatross contract LOL
DeGrom won’t get his 100th win until sometime in the 2023 season… when he’s 35. Seems unlikely the HOF would stretch that far south, but he might consider jumping teams by then… probably looking at 5-year contract, maybe 150 M. Yankees? Dodgers? Red Sox?