[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

ESPN headline this morning:

Jacob deGrom's gem lowers ERA to 0.71, lowest through May since 1964

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...71-lowest-1964

An amazing aspect of this is that the Mets scored some runs, won the game, and deGrom got the win!

Wow, this is getting ridiculous with deGrom. ERA now down to 0.62. They're talking about Bob Gibson's record 1.12 ERA in 1968, the lowest mark of the live-ball era (since 1920).

Here's a bit of a dampener, though. Through June 5, deGrom has started 9 games and pitched 58 innings. He has one complete game, a shutout. Using simple math, that projects to about 28 starts and 180 innings.

In 1968, Gibson started 34 games, completed 28 of them (13 shutouts) and pitched 304.2 innings.

Even if deGrom finishes with a lower ERA than Gibson (what qualifiers to they use for IP?), I have a feeling that comparing deGrom in 2021 to Gibson in 1968 is going to be apples and oranges because of the way the game has changed in the last 50 years.