Having put some more high-quality innings under his belt, Jacob deGrom enters his start tonight—very likely his last of the season unless some crazy things happen with the Mets and Brewers over the next few days—as the favorite to win the Cy Young award in the National League. If he does so, he’ll join a pretty small group of pitchers who have won the award in back-to-back years.
While deGrom’s season hasn’t been as otherworldly as what he did last year, he has been pretty, pretty good. Having thrown 197.