Coming off back-to-back National League Cy Young Award seasons, Jacob deGrom has begun the 2020 season looking every bit as good a pitcher as he was over the past two years. For someone who has established himself as the best pitcher in the sport over that span, that should hardly be surprising, but in a Mets season that has gotten off to a rocky start, it’s worth pausing for a moment to continue to appreciate deGrom.
In three starts thus far, the most recent of which came last night in Atlanta, deGrom has thrown 17.