{"product_id":"graded-2014-bowman-prospects-jacob-degrom-bp73-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint Jacob DeGrom 2014 Bowman Prospects #BP73 Rookie RC Baseball Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eJacob deGrom 2014 Bowman Prospects #BP73 Rookie RC Baseball Card — Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint — Stetson, Florida — Stetson University — New York Mets — 2014 NL Rookie of the Year — Two-Time NL Cy Young Award Winner — The Pitcher Who Posted a 1.70 ERA in a Cy Young Season — 2014 Bowman Prospects #BP73 Rookie RC — Certified PSA 10 Gem Mint\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Jacob deGrom did not come from a power program, was not drafted in the first round, and did not arrive in the major leagues through the standard fast-track development pipeline. He came from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida — a small liberal arts school with a Division I baseball program — converted from shortstop to pitcher during his college career, was drafted in the 9th round by the New York Mets in 2010, developed through the minor league system for four years, and debuted in May 2014. He then won the NL Rookie of the Year Award and went on to post two of the most statistically dominant pitching seasons in the modern era. The 2014 Bowman Prospects #BP73 Rookie RC, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint, captures him at the threshold of that story — the year it all began. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eStetson, Florida — The Small-School Origin of a Cy Young Legend\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 Jacob deGrom was born on June 19, 1988, in Stetson, Florida — a small rural community in Putnam County, in the north-central part of the state where Florida's pine forests and lake country form a landscape as far from the New York Mets' Citi Field as geographically possible. He attended Stetson University — the small liberal arts school in DeLand best known for its law school — where the baseball program gave him the developmental environment to discover that his arm strength, his extension toward the plate, and the late movement on his pitches made him something more valuable on the mound than at shortstop. The Mets agreed when they picked him in 2010. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003eThe Cy Young Seasons — A 1.70 ERA That Defied the Statistical Imagination\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 The 2018 NL Cy Young Award went to Jacob deGrom with a 10-9 won-loss record — a number that led some voters to question whether a pitcher with ten wins deserved the award. The statistics that surrounded that win-loss record answered the question definitively: a 1.70 ERA in 32 starts covering 217 innings, an opponent batting average of .193, and a performance that most pitching analysis evaluators ranked among the five best single-season pitching campaigns in the post-World War II era. His 2019 Cy Young follow-up, with a 2.43 ERA and 255 strikeouts, confirmed that 2018 was not an anomaly. The 2014 Bowman Prospects card documents the beginning of that two-Cy-Young career. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003e2014 NL Rookie of the Year — Arrival in New York\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ In the same year his Bowman Prospects card was printed, Jacob deGrom debuted for the New York Mets, posted a 9-6 record with a 2.69 ERA, and won the National League Rookie of the Year Award — becoming the first Mets pitcher to win the award. The combination of pure stuff — a mid-to-upper-90s fastball and a slider that generated elite swing-and-miss rates — and the competitive intensity he brought to every start gave Mets fans a starting pitcher they could build their rotation fantasy around. His 2014 Bowman Prospects #BP73, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint, is the certified-perfect version of his debut year card. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾🌟 Jacob deGrom. Stetson, Florida. Stetson University. New York Mets. 2014 NL Rookie of the Year. Two-time NL Cy Young Award winner. A 1.70 ERA in 2018 that remains one of the most remarkable seasons a pitcher has ever had. 2014 Bowman Prospects #BP73. PSA 10 Gem Mint. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039467483368,"sku":"2014-BP-JD-BP73-PSA-10","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-2014-bowman-prospects-jacob-degrom-bp73-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint-494.webp?v=1770192119","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-2014-bowman-prospects-jacob-degrom-bp73-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}