Morning Briefing: It's DeGrom Day!

Good morning, folks! The Mets play their series finale with Boston and have Jacob deGrom going for them against Chris Sale.

The Mets lost 5-3 last night despite Brandon Nimmo‘s three-run homer. Paul Sewald struggled out of the bullpen.

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Red Sox manager and former Met, Alex Cora, makes no secrets about Jacob deGrom’s dominance. He says, “He’s been amazing. Forget the record. Look at the real numbers. It’s impressive.”

Dustin Pedroia presented David Wright with a number five from the Red Sox scoreboard. Classy move on his part.

Jay Bruce didn’t mince words about his injury plagued season. Mike Puma of the Post tweeted his reaction to only now hitting his eighth homer.

Dominic Smith does not like rats (as do most people). He said, “Bro. I’m from LA, bro. We don’t have rats. When you see one, it’s time to move out of that place and time to buy a whole new place. I want to buy a whole new dugout.” As Mr. French said in the Departed, “Francis, it’s a nation of bleeping* rats.”

Tim Britton of the Athletic gives an extremely up close inside scoop with multiple scouts chiming in on the process that went into drafting Jacob deGrom as an unknown shortstop prospect and how he eventually turned into the ace he is today.

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Buster Olney writes about why the hard throwing pitchers are getting hurt.

Joel Sherman yells at the cloud about baseball being ruined by analytics. I think baseball is being ruined by all the people who say the game is being ruined. It is basic high school math to understand analytics. It is not like fans are being shown the actual code that teams use or regression models. Every sport has it and every sport uses it to judge players. Baseball is the only one where journalists and broadcasters complain about seeing it.