At Amazin’ Avenue HQ we (semi) jokingly discussed how baseball would need to come up with another statistic to measure pitchers next season because of how Jacob deGrom’s season has gone. Something where we would tell future generations that the 2018 Mets were so bad they changed baseball forever.
A “deGrom” would probably look a lot like his past two starts. He pitched at least seven innings, gave up three runs or less, and got the loss. These starts extended his streak of giving up three runs or less to nineteen.
These were not deGrom’s best performances this season but they were still perfectly acceptable starts and games even a mediocre team could’ve won.