Dwight Gooden knows something about winning the NL Cy Young award and a World Series with the New York Mets. He has been at Citi Field to observe Jacob deGrom the past few years.
“Greatness, he can only get better,” Gooden said last year after deGrom won his first NL Cy Young Award.
But Gooden did not win the award in consecutive years and neither did Tom Seaver, when both men were setting strikeout records while hurling for the Mets.
Now, you can place Jacob deGrom in that category of dominance, winning the NL Cy Young award in consecutive years.