The Texas Rangers right-handed pitcher Jacob deGrom has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Comeback Player of the Year award in the American League. The announcement was made during Thursday’s televised MLB Awards show on MLB Network.

The Comeback Player of the Year award is presented to a player from each league who has re-emerged on the field during the season.

deGrom, 37, returned from injury-shortened 2023 and 2024 campaigns to pace the Rangers in innings pitched, games started, and strikeouts, going 12-8 with a 2.97 ERA (57 ER/172.2 IP) and 185 strikeouts over 30 starts.

The team’s lone representative on the 2025 A.L. All-Star team, deGrom ranked among qualified A.L. pitchers in WHIP (2nd, 0.92), opponent batting average (2nd, .196), and ERA (6th). His 0.92 WHIP figure was the lowest by a qualified hurler in franchise history, besting Nolan Ryan’s 1.01 mark in 1991.

After allowing just one run over 5.0 innings in his final start of 2025 on September 24 vs. Minnesota, deGrom registered the eighth season of 30-or-more starts and a sub-3.00 ERA in Senators/Rangers franchise history, first since Martín Pérez in 2022.

deGrom also became the first MLB pitcher to compile such a season after making no more than three Major League starts in the year prior since Ryan Dempster achieved the feat in 2008 with Chicago-NL.

The five-time All-Star and two-time Cy Young Award winner worked 30 starts for the first time since making 32 starts during his N.L. Cy Young Award-winning season of 2019 with New York-NL.

deGrom owns the 3rd-lowest ERA in the Expansion Era (since 1961) among pitchers with 200-or-more starts at 2.57, trailing only Sandy Koufax (2.19) and Clayton Kershaw (2.53).

deGrom is the second Rangers player to be named Comeback Player of the Year since the award’s inception in 2005, joining first baseman Prince Fielder in 2015. Texas President of Baseball Operations Chris Young also won the award in 2014 as a member of the Seattle Mariners.

deGrom and Justin Verlander are the only pitchers to earn Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, and Comeback Player of the Year honors throughout their careers.

The right-hander was also voted as the A.L. Comeback Player of the Year as part of the MLB Players Association’s annual Players Choice Awards, it was announced on October 29.