Maybe there’s something really wrong with Jacob deGrom. It happens, you know. Pitching is such a precise craft that any number of things can go wrong in the delivery of a baseball from 60 feet, 6 inches away. It doesn’t even have to be anything as sinister as a bum shoulder or a barking elbow, as both deGrom and an MRI tube insist is not an issue.
It doesn’t even have to be anything quite so scientific as the various and sundry mechanical issues the Mets are presently investigating. Look, pitching is a fickle mystery sometimes.