{"id":222115,"date":"2025-09-12T23:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/222115\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:41:15","slug":"watch-mets-show-jacob-degrom-tribute-video-ahead-of-fridays-game-against-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/222115\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Mets show Jacob deGrom tribute video ahead of Friday&#8217;s game against Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the start of Friday&#8217;s game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/tags\/mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mets<\/a> and Texas Rangers, New York showed a tribute video of<a href=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/tags\/jacob-degrom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacob deGrom;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong> Jacob deGrom<\/strong><\/a>, Friday&#8217;s starter, in his first start at Citi Field since leaving in free agency following the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>The video, about one minute and five seconds long, featured highlights from the right-hander&#8217;s incredible nine-year career in New York between 2014 and 2022 and ended with the message &#8216;Welcome Back Jacob&#8217; before transitioning to deGrom&#8217;s walk-out song &#8220;Simple Man&#8221; by Lynyrd Skynyrd that became iconic in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom, getting loose on the field, was then displayed on the screen which resulted in a round of applause and the 37-year-old tipping his cap to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>A four-time All-Star with the Mets, deGrom went 82-57 in New York and pitched to a 2.52 ERA (0.99 WHIP) with 1,835 strikeouts in 1,522.2 IP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to the start of Friday&#8217;s game between the Mets and Texas Rangers, New York showed a tribute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9305,34548,79586,3685,1266,405,120681,62,1278,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-222115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-citi-field","9":"tag-jacob-degrom","10":"tag-lynyrd-skynyrd","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-sny-mets","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-texas-rangers","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115193976228642319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}