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- Updated: August 26, 2016
NEW YORK — Concerned about Jacob deGrom’s consecutive poor starts, the Mets spent this week digging into the Trackman technology available to them at ballparks around the country, hoping to spot the root cause of their ace’s struggles. Coming away convinced that deGrom’s issues are mechanical, not health-related, the team will spend the next 10 days attempting to fix them.
As such, deGrom will miss his next start in an attempt to rediscover the form that made him a National League Cy Young candidate as recently as mid-August.
“Of course I want to be out there, but these past few I haven’t helped the team very much,” said deGrom, who has given up 13 runs on 25 hits over his last two outings, ballooning his ERA from 2.29 to 2.96. “I think this is going to help me in the long run.”
The Mets’ data showed that deGrom is releasing his pitches from a point significantly higher, and more toward the first-base line than he has in the past. As a …
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