Let’s not assert with full confidence that Jacob deGrom should construct a new trophy case in his Florida home, or craft an acceptance speech, or plan every last detail of a members-only dinner with R.A. Dickey, Dwight Gooden and Tom Seaver.
On the other hand? He shouldn’t book an expedition to the South Pole or anything for when the award is handed out in November.
The early indications look very encouraging for deGrom, his monster season clouded by the Mets’ chronic, comic lack of run support, to win his first National League Cy Young Award and join Dickey, Gooden and Seaver as the only Mets who received this honor from the Baseball Writers Association of America.