He is simply de best.
Jacob deGrom’s historic season with the Mets received an exclamation point Wednesday, when the ace right-hander was named winner of the National League Cy Young award in a landslide victory. DeGrom received 29 of 30 first-place votes from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in topping Max Scherzer and Aaron Nola for the honor and becoming the fourth Mets pitcher, joining Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden and R.A. Dickey, to win the award.
DeGrom finished 10-9 with a major league-best 1.70 ERA and 269 strikeouts in 217 innings. The 30-year-old finished the season with 29 straight starts in which he surrendered three runs or fewer.
Throughout the summer, there had been debate whether deGrom’s low win total would hinder his Cy Young chances, but the voters clearly looked beyond won-loss record in picking deGrom ahead of Scherzer and Nola, who had 18 and 17 victories, respectively. Felix Hernandez won 13 games for the Mariners in 2010, the previous low for a Cy Young award-winning starter in a non-strike year.
The Mets, who watched the knuckleballer Dickey win the award in 2012, joined the Diamondbacks (Randy Johnson and Brandon Webb) and Dodgers (Eric Gagne and Clayton Kershaw) as the only NL teams this century with two different Cy Young winners.
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