Untouchable ace Jacob deGrom has reportedly agreed to a deal with the Texas Rangers, the club announced Friday.
From his debut through 2017, deGrom was a very good pitcher with a five-pitch arsenal whose fastball sat between 94 and 96 mph. He twice received down-ballot Cy Young consideration. In 2018, though, he morphed into an arguably unprecedented baseball Terminator, winning back-to-back Cy Young Awards.
Now, he regularly touches 100 mph or higher with his fastball. And while he will occasionally offer a changeup or curveball to keep things interesting, he operates — for all intents and purposes — with two impossible pitches: that fastball and a 92 mph slider, relentlessly spotted down and away to righties and down and in to lefties.
The only problem? His pursuit of pitching nirvana has recently been interrupted by injuries, raising the question of whether the pitches are nearly as impossible for him to throw as they are for hitters to hit. Forearm and elbow discomfort ended deGrom's 2021 after 15 starts, and a stress reaction in his scapula delayed his 2022 comeback until August.
Since the start of 2018, deGrom leads all pitchers in ERA , strikeout rate and strikeout-minus-walk rate . He's second in batting average allowed and HR/9 . In his shortened 2022 season, that home run rate was elevated and represented just about the only way anyone scored on him. Advanced metrics built to be predictive,
, say deGrom's performance was in line with his 2018-21 window of dominance, even if his 3.08 ERA didn't quite match up., deGrom twirled six innings to earn their lone victory over the San Diego Padres in the NL wild-card series. He's 4-1 with a 2.90 ERA in five career postseason starts.
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