A pitcher has an 8.10 ERA?  Big deal. Your starting pitcher is missing a few miles per hour on his fastball?  It’s still early. It’s Spring Training. You don’t get upset about things like this in Spring Training. 

Except the regular season is less than two weeks away, and Jacob deGrom has yet to throw it over 93 MPH. He’s had some leg and back problems in Spring Training. He threw a lot of innings last year. He tired after the NLDS. Should Mets fans at least start getting concerned that one of their three aces still has diminished velocity this close to the regular season?  Well, if the scouts are right, not yet:

Anyhow, couple scouts shrugged of deGrom’s velocity. Again, it's spring after all. He also had a weird schedule with the leg and back thing.

— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) March 21, 2016

If not today, then when?  deGrom has two starts left before he toes the rubber in Kansas City for the second game of the season. Of course with his wife expecting, that schedule can get thrown out of whack. When deGrom’s son is born, he intends to be there. This will further throw a wrench into deGrom’s ability to get ready for the season and/or find those extra few miles per hour. 

Perhaps deGrom already has them. Perhaps he wasn’t bringing his best stuff against a Marlins team the Mets will face 19 times this year. Maybe he is saving those bullets for the regular season and postseason rather than wasting them in Spring Training. Because it is Spring Training, anything is still possible. 

But at some point, it will no longer be Spring Training. At some point, we will learn that either deGrom has his fastball, or he doesn’t. Today is not the day. It’s too soon to be worried about deGrom’s arm. However, that time is coming fast.  Hopefully, that day will never come.