Rough Stretch For DeGrom

There are some pitchers that are once in a generation arms. Jacob DeGrom of the New York Mets falls into that category. He's one of the most dominating pitchers in the game of baseball in the game today and has been for the last number of seasons. When he's healthy and on the hill! Jake has been dealing with injuries the last couple of seasons, the latest one causing him to miss opening day this year. And its starting to frustrate the Mets star!

Jake is going to be out for an extended amount of time, when it was revealed last week he has a stress reaction on his right scapula.This does a couple of things for him and the Mets. This puts a crimp in the plans for what the Mets had as a vaunted one-two punch at the top of their rotation with him and Mad Max Scherzer. Baseball fans know that it's not a problem for Max to handle the workload as being the ace of the staff, he's done that before in his career. So the Mets still have an ace at the top of their rotation, but then it came out that Max Scherzer is dealing with Hamstring tightness. All of this news is starting to put more of a damper on the Mets season, which hasn't even started yet.

For DeGrom, this is growing more frustrating that he hasn't been able to pitch. He hasn't toed a rubber on a major league mound since July 7th of last year. And when he got hurt last year, he was on the top of his game and dominating.  At the same time, last year we started seeing cracks in his armor, dealing with injuries pushing back his starts. You can understand totally and feel for Jake for getting this frustrated. He wants to go out there and pitch and compete every 5th day.

Right now Jake can't do that and its getting to him. It can't be explained right now why stuff like this is happening to DeGrom and why he can't stay healthy and stay on the mound. I really feel for Jake, the guy has been the face of this staff for a long time now. Jake has been the face of this pitching staff the last five years and this has been a huge blow for him.

But the cream of the crop will rise to the top. Jake will come back from this and will remind us all, in due time, why he is one of the very best pitchers in the game!