Jacob deGrom returning to injury-riddled Mets
NY Post
Jacob deGrom is about to rejoin the injury-ravaged Mets, but others are not quite as close.
The ace came out of his side session feeling good before Sunday’s game and now he is in line to start Tuesday against the Rockies. DeGrom left his May 9 start against the Diamondbacks with pain in his side after five innings and made one rehab start at Single-A last week. DeGrom joined his teammates Friday in Miami and began his regular between-starts routine, but manager Luis Rojas was hesitant to green-light him for an MLB game until after observing Sunday’s tune-up.It was only a three-second glimpse, but Matt Rempe, finally, showcased offensive strides. The ones he started talking about in the preseason — after a summer’s worth of work — and kept doubling down on, even when he fluctuated in and out of the Rangers lineup and shuttled back and forth to AHL Hartford.
In a different time, in a season to come, we may be inclined to wax poetic about the way this one played out. In a different time, in a season to come, the Nets will be seeking to stack wins and not losses, will be fighting for playoff seeding and not for a few extra ping-pong balls in the draft lottery this spring.
The NBA has an All-Star Game problem. Despite Adam Silver’s efforts to inject juice into the February showcase — including a format alteration to the 2025 game that is too confusing to attempt to understand before it’s inevitably changed again — there’s little interest in watching teams eschew defense for a series of layup line highlights. That also means the most entertaining part of the NBA All-Star Game is just like the Pro Bowl — debating over who should get a spot.