The Mets are planning to select the contract of right-hander Tylor Megill, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com was among those to pass along. He’ll start tomorrow evening’s game against the Braves.
New York’s eighth-round pick in 2018 out of the University of Arizona, Megill entered 2021 in the back half of the Mets top thirty prospects, in the estimation of both Baseball America and Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs. He can run his fastball into the mid-high 90s, per evaluators, with generally average secondary stuff. Both BA and FanGraphs suggest Megill’s more likely to settle in as a reliever long-term, but he’ll break into the majors as a starter.
Over parts of three minor league seasons, Megill has worked to a solid 3.41 ERA with a stellar 32.1% strikeout rate and an average 8.8% walk percentage. The 25-year-old has been fantastic in the high minors this year. Between Double-A Binghamton (26 innings) and Triple-A Syracuse (14 1/3 frames), he’s worked to a 3.35 ERA with a whopping 36% strikeout rate and a better than average 7.3% walk rate. That performance has earned him his first big league call.
Megill isn’t on the 40-man roster, so the Mets will need to make a corresponding move to formally select his contract. That can be done by transferring lefty Joey Lucchesi to the 60-day injured list. Lucchesi will undergo Tommy John surgery on Thursday.
Can’t be any worse than Eickhoff
The Eikhoff who just pitched 4 scoreless?
The Eikhoff that loaded the bases on 30 pitches in the first inning, yes that Eikhoff
You obvoiusly didn’t watch the game, walked 3 batters, loaded up the bases in the first inning, and had 3-2 counts all night. The Braves were also hitting shots off him every time they made contact but he was saved by the defense
He did fine for a spot start. Have to give him more than 4 innings. Jeez. Let’s see how he rounds out after being settled on the team for a week in his next start before beating him up over being a backup backup starter option.
The Eikhoff who got a hit last night?
So far, Mets pitching and defense has been stellar. Losing Gsellman, Luchesi and Familia is not catastrophic. It reflects the franchise’s historical skill at finding great pitching talent.
Their chronically AWOL offense IS the CULPRIT preventing this team from progressing. Returning Conforto, McNeil and Nimmo may help a bit but the underlying problem is that their positions players are at best average. It’s an indictment of the organization’s farm system that since producing David Wright and Jose Reyes, has repeatedly failed to produce top shelf position player talent. Their last great impact hitter was Cespedes. Enough said. Their investment in DR baseball academy has also failed to produce top shelf talent.
Team hyped Rosario as the next franchise SS but in reality he’s a below average defender with average power.
Verdict: Grossly overrated.
After his amazing 2019 debut, Alonso looked like the real deal but reality is setting in that although he has incredible power, he’s not an elite hitter and does not make enough solid contact. After 66 games, he has 8 doubles and 1 HR at CF. Yikes!
Verdict: Overrated
New ownership is saying all the right things and is willing to spend but fixing the farm system will take years and success is not a certainty. Building a successful sport franchise that wins consistently requires excellence in talent acquisition and development. A handful of MLB franchises excel at it. Mets are below average in these critical skills. The Wilpons never understood what it takes. Hopefully Cohen will roll up the sleeves, own up to the organization’s position player talent deficiencies and run it like a serious business that completes with the best, not just another billionaire’s hobby.
Nimmo, Conforto, are all impact hitters who are as good, if not better than Cespedes was.
You are entitled to your opinion but the career stats simply don’t back up your statement. Besides hitting prowess, Cespedes was a gold glove caliber defender with one of the best and most accurate arms in baseball. During his short Met career he threw a number of runners out at 2nd, 3rd and home. When’s the last time Conforto or Nimmo did that even once? We can argue “who’s better?” all day long but the fact is if Mets don’t trade for Cespedes mid 2015, they don’t make the playoffs, let alone the WS. No position player on this current team is playing anywhere near the level Cespedes achieved in 2015,
Cespedes career OPS+: 125, career high with Mets: 155 (half season), 136 (full season). Nimmo: 131, 148… Conforto: 126, 154 last year, 148 in 109 games in ‘17… those are the stats. At best they’re all even. Cespedes’ arm had value but he wasn’t a particularly good OFr… that gg he won in Detroit in 102 games just shows how arbitrary that award can be. Point is, saying Cespedes was the last impact hitter the Mets have had is just dead wrong on several levels.
Old news. He’s no longer in the picture.
Does he have a brother?
Yes his name is Repete
Yes: fangraphs.com/players/trevor-megill/17722/stats?po…
Gotta be Trevor’s brother. 6’7” RHP w mid-high 90s fastball, from CA…
You are correct. Tylor and Trevor Megill are brothers.
Both of his names look like they are spelled wrong.
Indeed they hurt my eyes to see
A candidate for the Baseball Spelling Bee, an idea that needs to happen. All-Star Weekend could use a nerd event.
My niece’s husband is related to the man with the longest last name.
Saltalamacchia.
I copied and pasted that. I iwll never win a Spelling Bee.
Ha. True story!
The wheels are coming off for the Mets due to their organizational dysfunction. Injuries left and right, inability to hit, Lindork is a $ 341 MM bust, and no clue from the FO on how to fix any of this.
Shouldn’t you be in bed? Summer school starts in a few hours.
Cey Hey,
I am actually in bed and I am too cool for school
Yeah, that’s what all the guys pumping gas for a living used to say.
Did you know that Nolan Ryan worked in the offseason pumping gas?
Yes, and he won a World Championship with the Mets. So there’s that.
Yes I watched him in that WS.
Ryan was a big factor in the 1969 National League Championship Series, throwing seven innings of relief in Game 3 against the Braves for his first playoff victory. He also saved Game 3 of the World Series, his only appearance in the Fall Classic. It was a 3 inning Save and the way he mowed down the Heart of the Orioles lineup particularly the Boog Powell AB was amazing.
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@Robrock30 –
That ’69 team were 8 games over ..500 on June 22nd, and 5 games out. Plenty people considered the franchise dysfunctional since their 1962 debut..As you know, they went on to win the World Series.
I think the current Mets have done a heck of a job overall, in first place by 4 games, 6 games over despite a mass of injuries.
Now they’re dealing with another injury wave and also dealing with offensive slump. Rather than dysfunctional as you claim, they’re resourceful and resilient as they’ve shown with their backs against the wall earlier this season. Tylor Megil is good call up. Also rejoining the team is Michael Conforto returning from hamstring injury. Brandon Nimmo isn’t too far behind, .835 and .840 career OPS’s, respectively.
The ’69 Mets finished 100 – 62 then swept the Braves 3 – 0 in NLCS and beat the Orioles in 5 Games after losing Game 1. The Season turned when they reeled off an 11 Game winning streak with a very strong 2nd half catching and leaving the Cubs in the dust. I lived it. Gil Hodges was a great manager well ahead of his time platooning his players and managing them. The pitching and defense were superb and had they drafted Reggie Jackson with the #1 pick in ’66 and not traded Ryan they would have owned the ’70s.
I spent the whole month of August, 1969, in New Hampshire and didn’t miss a game because they broadcast them on the radio station on top of Mount Washington. A little later on I had the experience of sitting next to the Sign Man, I have his autograph somewhere. Gil Hodges was a masterful manager.
@Robrock30
I know what happened in 1969.. I was already developing my love for baseball at that time.
My point however is that Mets had a losing and dysfunctional reputation from their 1962 inception, until they began to play good baseball in ’69. That team was built on pitching, good defense and solid, fundamental baseball. The offense didn’t carry them.. they added on as the season progressed. That team had heart and soul, found ways to win. That they ended the regular season as 100-win team, was in no way expected when the season began.
We see that heart and resiliency from the current Mets who, despite reams of injury, are 6 games over .500 and in first place. Pitching and defense has carried this team, just like the ’69 Mets.
This Mets team however, was built for offense, pitching, veteran bench, veteran minor league depth and some defensive upgrades during the offseason to improve a weakness.. They were built to win, We’ll see how that pans out at the end of 162. The ’69 Mets were 8 games over on June 22nd. This team, 6.
They are such different teams, 1969 and 2021. It would be cool to see the same result. I think the dysfunctionality of the franchise is a little overblown, but then the modern fan has no patience, and will throw their team under the bus at every turn for the worse. And there are no shortages of unhappy people who don’t like the Mets to pile on the vitriol when things go badly.
whyhayzee,
I was 12 yo in August of 1969 too young to attend Woodstock but I heard stories from those older who attended as well as Vietnam.
That was an amazing year for New York Sports with the Jets, Knicks and Mets Championships. I remember the sign man who always had the right signs prepared to hold up during the Games. Thanks for reminding me about him.
LongTimefan1,
I don’t see what you see in this Mets team. I see a hodgepodge of Players but not a well oiled machine which I saw with the ’69 and ’86 Mets teams. I frankly don’t see the same talent either.
Same age. We saw lots of traffic from Woodstock on the roads. Every few miles there was a broken down VW van. 😉
We are both blessed and watched the Moon Landing that summer while the Mets were chasing the Cubs. I turned 13 in September of 1969 so I was in junior high watching the Mets in the postseason in class during the day for the weekday games. The TVs were in every classroom all eyes glued to the Games and most of my classmates were Yankees fans so I thoroughly enjoyed those moments. Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio were at the WS Games as was Babe Ruth’s widow interviewed and broadcasting the Games talking Mets greatness. WOW Mets were the hottest event.
Growing up in the 60s was great. Our generation was so lucky in most ways.
No one’s comparing this team to a Met team from another era. What’s the point. We’re comparing this team to other teams in their division and the league. Mets pitching has been great and despite the recent injuries, it could get even better in the second half. The problem continues to be offense. The Mets best position players are all average or below average hitters. The last four teams the Mets have played each have at least two position players that are better than the two best on the Mets. Hopefully things will change over a long season but this organization has a history of overrating their position player prospects and trading/overpaying for veterans past their prime.
And you just flip the mattress every morning
Francisco Lindor 0 for four
As I predicted at the start of the season as a long time Mets fan this team is crashing back to reality and will not make the playoffs as all the wild card spots will come out of the West and Central. Position players coming back are not going make a difference.
Stroman was pitching in a contract year and pushed himself to hard; Mets can not make another qualifying offer and hope they don’t sign him.
Fortune Favors the Bold; trade DeGrom who I love now and rebuild while you can.
Lindor’s contract will kill any chance of FA pickups
The team is fine. You really wanna panic and sell while they’re in first place?
A rebuild for a team who has a larger lead within their division than any other first place team in their division. Canosucks, you really don’t know baseball.
Someone please come get this guy. He’s drunk.
Lol he threw a no hitter and hit a home run in his MLB debut for me in OOTP. Hope this translates to real life
Its just fun to watch everyone’s’ reaction; everything is a matter of opinion not fact or knowledge; that is what this board is for. First place in a lousy division does not say much and who knows you may all be right but maybe not too.
I don’t drink just drunk on full capacity baseball!
If this Mets get bounced out quick and have nothing to show for 2021 than more moves getting rid of young talent it may be worth heading my way.
Anyway life is boring if everyone thinks the same, just enjoy!
First place is first place. Yes they are a flawed team and may see some regression. But you don’t tear down while leading your division, you just don’t…. Getting bounced early in the playoffs can happen to anyone, the playoffs are a crapshoot; no one series ever determines a teams ability to win overall…. In conclusion: they are in first place, yet too flawed a team to justify going all in and damning the future and tearing it up now would be crazy.
So two fish are swimming in the ocean off the coast of Ireland. One starts to suffocate, and yells to the other, “Tylor, Megill! Tylor, Megill!”
Tylor Megill deserves this call up. In fact, He’s the only Mets minor leaguer @deserving.
Go Braves! Time to get crackin’. This division is still up for grabs.