{"id":552857,"date":"2026-03-29T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552857\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:27:09","slug":"rangers-jacob-degrom-better-after-missing-season-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552857\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers’ Jacob deGrom ‘better’ after missing season debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Rangers<\/a> ace right-hander Jacob deGrom<\/a>, who was scratched from Saturday’s start<\/a> because of neck stiffness, said Sunday he feels “much better” and is hopeful that he can make his season debut this week.<\/p>\n

“We’ll see how it goes [Monday],” deGrom told reporters after playing catch and throwing out to 120 feet. “It’s definitely a big improvement from yesterday.”<\/p>\n

Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said it’s “still a possibility” that deGrom, 37, returns Tuesday or Wednesday against the Baltimore Orioles<\/a>, but the team will proceed on a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

DeGrom went 12-8 with a 2.97 ERA and 185 strikeouts last season. His final two years with the New York Mets<\/a> were plagued by injury before he left in free agency after the 2022 season, and the two-time Cy Young Award winner had Tommy John surgery after only six starts in his Rangers run in 2023.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers ace right-hander Jacob deGrom, who was scratched from Saturday’s start because of neck stiffness, said Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-552857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}