Saul Martinez for The New York Times
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Jacob deGrom was the best in the world at his job last season. For that, the Mets gave him a raise of almost $10 million.
That is basically what they had to do, considering his rights to salary arbitration. But they have done nothing more for deGrom.
“I would like to be part of this team’s future,” he said on Thursday, after the first official spring training workout for the Mets’ pitchers and catchers. “I would like the feeling to be mutual. That’s just something that we’re going to have to see.