{"id":80633,"date":"2024-07-19T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=80633"},"modified":"2024-07-19T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:21:15","slug":"rangers-jacob-degrom-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/19\/rangers-jacob-degrom-injury-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; Jacob deGrom Trending In Promising Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the team&#8217;s latest update, Texas Rangers star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/degroja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob deGrom<\/a> is trending in a promising direction as he continues to work his way back from an injury.<\/p>\n<p>deGrom has not pitched in an MLB game in over a year. The 36-year-old is attempting to return from Tommy John surgery, a procedure he received in June of 2023. deGrom has received <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/16\/rangers-jacob-degrom-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">various updates<\/a> throughout the 2024 season and the most recent one is especially encouraging.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jacob deGrom Injury Update<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The two-time Cy Young Award winner reportedly threw 35 pitches during a bullpen on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kennlandry\/status\/1814406094757703857\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kennedi Landry of MLB.com<\/a> reports. Landry notes that deGrom threw sliders in addition to fastballs. Rangers manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/bochybr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Bochy<\/a> said deGrom &#8220;felt great&#8221; and that the bullpen &#8220;went well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jacob deGrom threw a bullpen of pitches today. He mixed in some sliders along with fastballs.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Bochy: \u201cAll went well, he felt great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 kennedi landry (@kennlandry) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennlandry\/status\/1814406094757703857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/02\/jacob-degrom-texas-rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">deGrom signed with the Rangers<\/a> before the 2023 season. He started his career in Texas strong, recording a 2.67 ERA across six outings. The injury bug unfortunately caught up with Jacob deGrom, however, and he ended up undergoing Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>People around the MLB world have differing opinions on whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/08\/rangers-mlb-trade-deadline\/\" target=\"_self\">Rangers should buy or sell<\/a> ahead of the MLB trade deadline. If Texas plays well to start the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/15\/rangers-corey-seager-second-half\/\" target=\"_self\">second half<\/a>, then the ball club may opt to buy. Of course, a deGrom injury return would feel like a midseason acquisition on its own.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What To Expect From deGrom Once He Returns<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is difficult to make any predictions about deGrom&#8217;s performance once he returns. He is in his mid-30s and pitchers often begin to display signs of decline at his age. With that being said, there has been a recent number of pitchers who have found success into their late 30s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/verlaju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Verlander<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scherma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Scherzer<\/a>). Additionally, deGrom is one of the best pitchers in the entire sport when he is healthy.<\/p>\n<p>deGrom may initially struggle since he has not pitched in an MLB game in so long. Once deGrom finds his rhythm, though, he may be a difference-maker for the Rangers starting rotation.\u00a0deGrom&#8217;s injury timeline remains fairly uncertain but he is taking promising steps towards a return.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the team&#8217;s latest update, Texas Rangers star Jacob deGrom is trending in a promising direction as he continues to work his way back from an injury. deGrom has not pitched in an MLB game in over a year. The 36-year-old is attempting to return from Tommy John surgery, a procedure he received in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5128,"featured_media":80640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1071,35],"tags":[6273,247,79,49],"class_list":["post-80633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-justin-verlander","tag-max-scherzer","tag-trade-deadline"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}