Mets ace Jacob deGrom experienced tightness in his right forearm during a side session Friday, manager Luis Rojas said Saturday. The right-hander had appeared lined up to make his first start of the second half Monday, but he has now been shut down from throwing until the tightness goes away.
“That's how we are approaching it right now,” Rojas said. “Day to day until he feels good that he can throw; but right now, he's not throwing. Today, he didn't throw. Until that tightness is gone, we're just not going to have him throw.”
deGrom underwent an MRI on Saturday that revealed no structural damage. Rojas said deGrom experienced similar tightness in a bullpen session before the All-Star break, and it flared up again during a side session the ace tried to throw during the break.
"He played catch at home and intended to throw a side there, too,” Rojas said. “He felt the tightness again and he just stopped throwing. He felt that a couple days off and coming here and trying to [throw a] side Friday, [it] was going to be away because it's a similar feel that he has in between starts sometimes with forearm tightness, but it goes away. This time it hasn't gone away and that's why right now he's just getting treatment.”
The bout of forearm tightness marks the latest in a series of injuries that have impeded deGrom throughout what has otherwise been a historically dominant start to the season. He missed two weeks with right side tightness in May, then exited his June 11 start with right flexor tendinitis, only to make his next start five days later, which he was forced to depart after three perfect innings with a sore right shoulder. He made his final four starts of the first half without further incident, though he opted to skip Tuesday's All-Star Game in light of those injury problems.
Despite all that, he finished the first half with a 1.08 ERA and a realistic chance to best Bob Gibson's 1968 1.12 ERA, the lowest qualified mark in the AL or the NL in the Live Ball Era.
Rojas said in his conversation with deGrom that it appears the previous injuries aren’t related to the forearm tightness that has sidelined him to start the second half of the season.
“I talked to him and I asked him if there was a correlation, and he said no,” Rojas said. “He said that this is different tightness. We'll find out more. I think we'll find out more about it. They're going to do some more treatment and I don't know if they're going to do more tests after an MRI, but we should find out more about it, to see what it is and if it goes away.”
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