Jacob deGrom can kiss his hitting days goodbye — at least for now.
The Mets’ star right-handed pitcher will still make his start as scheduled Monday after an injury scare in which he hyperextended his right elbow on a swing last Wednesday — but he won’t be swinging the bat for the foreseeable future.
“We haven’t even discussed it, [but] no, he will not,” manager Mickey Callaway said Saturday before the Mets hosted the Rockies at Citi Field. “I haven’t told him that, but no.