Jacob deGrom may be sporting shorter hair now, but that doesn’t mean he’s thinking short-term.
The righty briefly engaged in extension talks with the Mets prior to avoiding arbitration on a one-year, $7.4 million deal earlier this month. Due to hit free agency in 2020, this is deGrom’s second year of arbitration and he has nearly doubled his salary from his first raise last offseason.
He certainly earned it. In an otherwise bleak and injury-riddled 2017 season, deGrom was the one constant for the Mets, throwing over 200 innings for the first time in his career and putting together his most valuable season yet with 4.