Mets: Jacob deGrom is totally fine! This is about Tai Walker, really!

Do you want Max and Jake back to back in games? I sure don’t. Why would you want that? Is it me? It’s you. This is about Tai Walker anyway. Don’t you like Tai Walker? I do. Why don’t you like Tai Walker? Don’t you want him comfortable? I do. Don’t you?

“A lot of things factored into [the decision],” Showalter said

I have spent a lot of time in corporate meetings. That sentence there sounds like a dodge to me.

“Tai, we didn’t want him to get too far away from pitching and losing arm strength and some of the things you might lose when you get that far away from it. That was the primary decision.”

So to do so we are getting Jacob deGrom, of all people, off HIS normal routine. Right.

deGrom threw 95 pitches in his last start.

“He was fine once he got warmed up and everything. Every guy has similar stuff like that … he actually improved being that he threw more than he has. Obviously the priority was Tai and we felt they could all benefit from a little extra time with that off day.”

Why again is deGrom benefitting from an off day – which is actually at least two days since the Mets don’t play tomorrow. Why Buck? Were 95 pitches too many?

Nope, this is all about Tai Walker. And sometimes its about splitting Max and Jake – well what idiot paired them to begin with? Did you guys not have that idea two weeks ago? Don’t kid a kidder, Mets.

And sometimes it’s about getting JDG an extra day, except its two, unless they decide to hold him until Friday in which case it is three.

But he is fine. The beat and the MSM just accepted this. I mean, why would you start deGrom against the Yankees when they are reeling and the new Mets owner wants to be Good Steinbrenner without any of the Bad Steinbrenner.

Jake is fine. He’s always fine. This is about Tai Walker. You’ll see.