Jacob deGrom Ranked on MLB Network's "Top 100 Players Right Now!"

JACOB DEGROM RANKED 8^TH ON MLB NETWORK’S

TOP 100 PLAYERS RIGHT NOW! COUNTDOWN

February 14, 2020 – New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom was ranked eighth on MLB Network’s annual Top 100 Players Right Now! program last night, which ranks the best players in Major League Baseball. deGrom, who ranked 10^th on last year’s countdown, ranked one spot ahead of the Colorado Rockies’ Nolan Arenado and one spot behind the New York Yankees’ Gerrit Cole. In addition to deGrom, the Mets’ Pete Alonso ranked 24^th, Jeff McNeil ranked 49^th and Michael Conforto ranked 78^th.

Hosted by MLB Network’s Greg Amsinger, alongside Sean Casey and Ron Darling, the six-part series across three nights counted down the top players based on player performance over the past several seasons, with an emphasis on 2019 and projected 2020 performance. Base-running, defensive value and award finishes were all taken into account when evaluating players, including those returning from injury. Top 100 Players Right Now! featured a cumulative 204 All-Stars selections, 76 Silver Slugger Awards, 38 Gold Glove Awards, 25 World Series championships, 14 Rookie of the Year Awards, 13 MVP Awards and 12 Cy Young Awards.

On last night’s live countdown, MLB Network analyst and 13-year MLB veteran Ron Darling said of deGrom, “This year, he used the fastball a lot. He had games where he threw the slider 50 percent of the time, he had games where he used the changeup. What I’m telling you is that he won the Cy Young with a certain pitch and then he didn’t really have it this year and he still won another Cy Young.”

An embeddable recap on deGrom can be seen here. The ranking of the top-20 players for MLB Network’s Top 100 Players Right Now! is listed below and the complete ranking is available here.

Top 100 Players Right Now!, 1-20:

1.            Mike Trout, CF, Los Angeles Angels

2.            Christian Yelich, RF, Milwaukee Brewers

3.            Cody Bellinger, CF, Los Angeles Dodgers

4.            Mookie Betts, RF, Los Angeles Dodgers

5.            Alex Bregman, 3B, Houston Astros

6.            Anthony Rendon, 3B, Los Angeles Angels

7.            Gerrit Cole, P, New York Yankees

8.            Jacob deGrom, P, New York Mets

9.            Nolan Arenado, 3B, Colorado Rockies

10.          Francisco Lindor, SS, Cleveland Indians

11.          Juan Soto, LF, Washington Nationals

12.          Ronald Acuña Jr., RF, Atlanta Braves

13.          Justin Verlander, P, Houston Astros

14.          Max Scherzer, P, Washington Nationals

15.          Freddie Freeman, 1B, Atlanta Braves

16.          Aaron Judge, RF, New York Yankees

17.          José Altuve, 2B, Houston Astros

18.          George Springer, RF, Houston Astros

19.          Matt Chapman, 3B, Oakland Athletics

20.          Stephen Strasburg, P, Washington Nationals