Talk:Jacob deGrom

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Review: January 16, 2016. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Jacob deGrom appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 January 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New York Mets fans mark games started by Jacob deGrom (pictured) with the Twitter hashtag #hairwego?

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Date of Rookie of the Year Announcement

He was announced as National League Rookie of the Year on November 10, 1014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 15:32, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The date is irrelevant. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:40, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Jacob deGrom/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Wizardman (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Six months is long enough to wait for a review, no? Wizardman 22:52, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I had thought so, but wasn't going to bring it up. Thanks for taking it on. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:35, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not gonna lie, it took me until about halfway through the article before I noticed his name was "deGrom" rather than "DeGrom". I never noticed that until now. Anyway, here are the issues I found:

Ref #33 (now at http://sports.yahoo.com/news/murphy-mets-beat-sleeping-dodgers-3-2-reach-032308506--mlb.html) needs publisher and date.

Done. Ikhtiar H (talk) 09:12, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The second part of amateur career reads a little stilted, i.e. "He did X. He did Y. He did Z." I'd at least combine a couple of the sentences to make it flow a little better.

Done. Ikhtiar H (talk) 09:17, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Did the Mets draft him as a pitcher or shortstop? Given his split before being drafted it might be worth noting.

Done. Noted as a pitcher. Ikhtiar H (talk) 09:23, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"where he made six starts,[6][10] before he" rm comma

Done. Ikhtiar H (talk) 09:30, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

" to the major leagues, and traded" rm comma

Done. Ikhtiar H (talk) 09:30, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nitpicking, but 2015 jumps right into June; did nothing noteworthy happen in April or May?

No significant contributions. Ikhtiar H (talk) 09:44, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"and a 2.54 ERA and a 0.99 WHIP " double "and a" in the sentence; fix the run-on.

Done. Ikhtiar H (talk) 09:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This one's hard to explain, but the last two sentence in 2015 feel like they're in a vacuum, given that they're mentioning an NLCS game and World Series game independent both of each other and the rest of the article. Reword if you can just to make his postseason story flow better.

Everything else necessary in a good article is present, so I'll put the article on hold and pass it when the issues are fixed. Wizardman 02:00, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great. I'll start working on this shortly. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:12, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Everything looks good now, so I'll pass the article as a GA. Wizardman 15:52, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. Okay. Thanks, Ikhtiar H. I was just ready to get to this now, so imagine my surprise. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:07, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Seeming error in 2019 contract negotiation discussion

During the 2018-19 offseason, the Mets hired Van Wagenen as their general manager. DeGrom and the Mets agreed to a $17 million salary for the 2019 season, the largest annual raise ever for an arbitration-eligible player. With Van Wagenen now negotiating for the Mets rather than deGrom, the two sides agreed to a five-year, $137.5 million contract extension […]

I'm not a baseball guy, but shouldn't that be rather than the previous general manager? (Which apparently was three people for part of 2018, not likely to be the people involved in his last negotiation, or Sandy Alderson if before that). According to the cites, deGrom was part of this negotiation, so this sentence has to be incorrect, but I'm not sure how to correct it. Akda5id (talk) 13:35, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Akda5id, I agree that this is worded oddly. It was an odd situation for a player agent to become a team's general manager, going from negotiating for his star client to having to sign the star client on the other end. I'll think about how to reword that. Any suggestions welcome. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:28, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Muboshgu, Ahhh, I get it now. I completely misinterpreted that. Perhaps something like "During the 2018-19 offseason, the Mets hired deGrom's agent Van Wagenen as their general manager." And then "With new representation deGrom negotiated a five-year, $137.5 million contract extension […]" That at least clears up the confusion. But ideally would be good to flesh out the implied conflict of interest with an ex agent negotiating with a prior client on the other side of the table. If you can find some news sources discussing that, would be a good one liner and cite. Akda5id (talk) 16:49, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Akda5id, it definitely isn't written well, as your misunderstanding demonstrates. I like your suggestion. There are surely many articles that can fill in around the conflict of interest.[1][2][3][4] – Muboshgu (talk) 17:56, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Social Media / Twitter

External Links section mentions JdeGrom19 as being his Twitter account. This account isn't verified and has less than 500 followers, only posting twice in almost 2 years. As far as I know, I don't believe he has any public social media accounts, and it definitely isn't JdeGrom19. Metzaddict (talk) 20:16, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]