Before we dispense with the elephant in the room that emerged early during the Texas Rangers’ 11-7 win over Philadelphia Thursday, let’s acknowledge and...
The issue with the 34-year-old pitcher, for several seasons now, has been his health. It is his availability, never the quality of his pitches, that concerned the New York Mets enough that, even with the most free-spending owner in the game, they said goodbye to an icon whose starts at Citi Field were “events” as should be the case with any two-time Cy Young winner., critics thought the contract was for too long , paying deGrom ace money at age 39.
For 2023, the important point in all of this is that not only can Texas still win on a day where the staff ace gets shelled, the carryover is insignificant. In the past, the Rangers were fortunate if they featured one truly elite level pitcher on their staff. And if Yu Darvish or Cliff Lee or Kenny Rogers or Kevin Brown got beat up and left the game in the fourth inning, the strain on the bullpen with so much mid-level mediocrity in the rotation could be staggering.
That’s not to say the Rangers are fine if deGrom remains a punching bag, but we know that won’t happen. And now they follow him with
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