Mets righty Tylor Megill suffered a setback in his rehab from elbow inflammation. Manager Carlos Mendoza tells reporters (including Anthony DiComo of MLB.com) that Megill felt elbow tightness when he tried to throw his breaking stuff on a rehab start with Triple-A Syracuse yesterday. The Mets sent him back to New York for imaging to determine whether there’s any structural damage.
Megill has been out since the middle of June. There’s a decent chance the setback will prevent him from contributing to the Mets’ hopeful playoff push. “We’re running out of time, especially now with him complaining about the same thing that he went down with earlier in the year,” Mendoza admitted. “I don’t want to speculate here, but the fact that he’s getting another MRI and where we’re at, it feels like we’re running out of time.”
The 30-year-old Megill opened the season in New York’s rotation. He started 14 times and managed a solid 3.95 earned run average across 68 1/3 frames. Megill struck out more than 29% of opponents, and while he didn’t often work deep into games, he was typically good for five solid innings in his starts. Megill probably wouldn’t have secured a spot in the Mets’ playoff rotation coming off an elbow injury that cost him most of the second half. He could have been a valuable multi-inning arm out of the bullpen, though.
That no longer seems likely. The Mets haven’t firmly closed the door on a return, but any kind of structural issue would certainly do so. Even if the imaging only reveals inflammation, it’s tough to see him returning before the end of the regular season on September 28. Playing deep into the postseason would give him a little more runway from a recovery perspective but also make it riskier for the Mets to shake up their October pitching staff.
Megill is playing on a $1.975MM salary in his first trip through arbitration. He crossed the four-year service threshold and will earn a slight raise for next season. The Mets control him through 2027.
Not surprised.
Whatever it takes to keep him out of the Mets’ rotation
Yup. We need more Montas contracts, no doubt. Tylor is a very affordable back of the rotation pitcher but carry on anyway.
Get the surgery done.
Next!
He has been replaced anyway with the 3 kids.
Unfortunate for Megill. It seemed he had unlocked something late in the 2024 season and the very beginning of 2025. Could have been a useful piece for the Mets had he stayed healthy. It will be interesting to see whether the Mets give Megill the same sentimental treatment they’ve given to Paul Blackburn and Drew Smith among others, and tender him a contract for 2026.
Not the only injury the Mets had to deal with early in the week. Luis Torrens just went on the injured list with a bruised right forearm — Hayden Senger is up from Triple-A Syracuse to fill in.
I think the Torrens injury hurts much worse. Torrens will obviously never be an All-Star, but his defense is excellent, and he sometimes delivers with clutch hits. I honestly prefer him to Francisco Alvarez at this point. Alvarez is too inconsistent with the bat and (even after improvements made in the minors) terrible defensively, not someone who will really help a team. Having two bad hands coming down the stretch definitely doesn’t help him.
Reports have Torrens likely to come back after the minimum 10 days – I think they ILed him because you just can’t play games without a healthy backup catcher
“Solid 3.95 earned run average?” Solid as what?
That’d be a franchise record for your Rox, dunno why you’re cryin!
Mets score on average 4.78 runs per game. That gives them a solid chance to win every time Megill takes the hill.
3.95 is the new 2.95. It’s solid.
Shame, Hope it’s not too serious. Maybe just convert to a reliever.
“… he was typically good for five solid innings in his starts.”
Crap. Megill is notorious for struggling throughout his career to get five, never mind “five solid.” His career average per start is a miserable 4-2/3, and in 2025 in 14 GS he only went 68.1 innings, so… less than 5.
MLBTR’s random, pointless shilling is bizarre. It can make MLB dot com look insightful.