Baseball saluted the new World Series champion Texas Rangers Wednesday night, and while the team’s fans were ecstatic, another MLB fanbase had some very complicated emotions.
New York Mets fans watched as former Mets pitchers Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer won World Series rings with the Rangers. Neither played a role in the postseason success; deGrom missed all but six games in 2023 with a torn UCL, while Scherzer had a 6.52 ERA in three postseason appearances.
Yet they both now have their first series rings. Baseball fans and Mets faithful couldn’t stop talking after the series about how the pair of former Cy Young Award winners were supposed to bring that WS trophy home to New York.
deGrom pitched his first nine seasons with the Mets before joining the Rangers in the offseason.
Scherzer, who signed a record two-year, $87 million contract with the Mets before the 2022 season, got moved at the trade deadline this year as the team went down in flames. Afterward, Scherzer revealed he was unhappy with the team’s future plans.
So for long-suffering Mets fans, watching deGrom and Scherzer win the World Series was tough to handle, but they tried to express their pain on X/Twitter. Of course, Mets-haters on X/Twitter were loving every minute of their pain.
Who ever is in charge of this post should be dismissed
— fred sem (@fsem86) November 2, 2023
deGrom and Scherzer getting rings with the Rangers but not the Mets is borderline hilarious https://t.co/Uk9rrwe0bz
— GP (@requestGranted) November 2, 2023
“Sir, Jacob Degrom has won a ring”
“With who? The Mets?”
“The Rangers.” pic.twitter.com/aydJ6ZqRZC
— Max Fried Enthusiast (@ATLhoe12345) November 2, 2023
If you told Mets fans at the end of last season that Jacob DeGrom and Max Scherzer would be World Series Champions a year later. pic.twitter.com/4MmJHoQOj0
— Thomas Carrieri (@Thomas_Carrieri) November 2, 2023
Billy Eppler should be sent to Guantanamo Bay
— baldtemi panarin enjoyer (@feebleempire) November 2, 2023
first year deGrom leaves the Mets he wins a ring pic.twitter.com/2W4e0qfyuM
— .. (@WobBurnerBurner) November 2, 2023
If you told me 1.5 years ago that the 2023 World Series winners would have Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer, there would be no doubt in my mind it was with the Mets. The hell happened?!
— T.J. (@TJ__Brennan) November 2, 2023
Not all Mets fans were unhappy about the bizarre turn of events that led their former aces to win a championship in Texas.
Happy Jacob deGrom finally got a World Series ring 💍. This pitcher rightfully deserves one. pic.twitter.com/xSQjG3dkli
— Grace (@khaleesiasoif) November 2, 2023
As a #Mets fan, I’m really happy for Jacob deGrom. Max Scherzer is a topic for another day.
Congrats to the Texas Rangers for their first #WorldSeries title.
With that said, David Stearns offseason starts now #LGM
— Josue De Jesus (@josuedjr) November 2, 2023
[SNY Mets]
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