This past year, Jacob deGrom became the fifth player in Mets history to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award. The other winners were Tom Seaver in 1967, Jon Matlack in 1972, Darryl Strawberry in 1983 and Dwight Gooden in 1984.
All four of those former Mets ended up having either very good or great careers. All four would play in at least one World Series with the Mets, and all but Matlack were part of championship teams in Mets history. Being that deGrom has now joined some elite company within the Mets’ ROY winners, hopefully, he could end up having a very good career himself going forward.
So with five Mets ROY winners, it’s only right to see a ranking of how good their rookie seasons were in comparison to each other. Let’s see which Mets Rookie of the Year had the best season of them all!