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Texas Rangers starting pitcher Jacob deGrom, right, reaches out to teammate catcher Jonah Heim after … More the final out ending the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. It’s been an interesting run for the Texas Rangers since they made a massive five-year, $185 million investment in starting pitcher Jacob deGrom prior to the 2023 season. On one hand, he underwent Tommy John surgery in June 2023, and was limited to 41 innings in his first two seasons with the club. On the other, he was dominant over that small sample of work, and the club won its first World Series championship in 2023, needing every last drop of pitching to get over the top. The current 2025 season has been a mix of good and bad for the club. A seemingly potent everyday lineup has struggled to score runs, but everything that could possibly go right on the pitching side has done just that. One could actually make the argument that deGrom has been their third most effective starter this season behind Nathan Eovaldi and Tyler Mahle, two other oft-injured hurlers, but that wouldn’t be doing deGrom justice. He’s off to a 4-1, 2.29, start with a 52/11 K/BB in his first 51 innings. He hasn’t done anything like this – especially quantity-wise – since he was a Met. deGrom hasn’t pitched 100 innings in a season since 2019, only qualifying for the ERA title in 2020 (with 68 innings) as the pandemic-shortened season was reduced to 60 games. So we are kind of in uncharted waters with regard to deGrom. No one knows whether injury will once again rear its ugly head. All we can do…

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