Wins are an overrated stat. You won’t get an argument from me there. You can get wins to pile up if you’re around long enough to not get cut and are on a potent team. That’s how you get a guy like Rick Helling who won 20 games in 1998 with a 4.41 ERA and 4.34 FIP. If you’re Jacob deGrom and the Mets have conditioned you to think you should belong there, the opportunity to string together 20-win seasons will be rare. Despite all this, in the case of and him being one of 14 pitchers to accumulate 3000 strikeouts and 250 wins, well, we can still look at that as an achievement because of what it represents.
CC Sabathia
