ARLINGTON, Texas -- Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom already has thrown off the mound this offseason and said everything felt normal after missing most of his first two seasons with the Texas Rangers because of elbow surgery.
The three starts deGrom got to make last September were significant for him.
"That way I could treat it like a normal offseason and not feel like I was in rehab mode the whole time," he said Saturday during the team's annual Fan Fest. "So that's what this offseason has been, you know, normal throwing.