Port St. Lucy – Tyler Megill arrives at spring training “on mission” and leaves for the Mets, starting the spin.
After watching a right-handed restriction walk at Grapefruitreug and controlling his pitch count, manager Carlos Mendoza officially appointed Megill on Sunday as part of the rotation with his season debut scheduled for Game 2 of the season in Houston.
Griffin Canning was also selected for the rotation as the starter for Game 3 in Houston.
Clay Holmes will begin the season opener on Thursday, with David Peterson and Kodaisenga pitching back-to-back in Miami next week.
Paul Blackburn will be opening his season in the bullpen. This was the first time the post was reported.
“It wasn't easy [decision] Mendoza said before the Mets beat the Marlins 10-2 in an exhibition game at Clover Park. He came to camp on a mission and went out there and won it. He did a lot of things we were asking, and it started with throwing a strike and attacking the batter, and he did it in the spring. His stuff is elite. He won it. ”
Arrived on a one-year contract worth $4.25 million, Canning was scheduled to begin the rotation season from the start of camp.
In his final spring tuning on Sunday, he kept the Marlins on a run he scored twice in 4¹/₃ innings.
He finished the spring with a 1.88 ERA.
Megill, who managed to return to Triple A Syracuse – he was the only pitcher of three competing for a spot with minor league options and became a candidate to open a season with the Mets after being injured by Frankie Montas and Sean Mania.
Montas has high quality LAT tensions that could cost at least a third of the season, and Mania deals with the tense diagonals that are likely to put him aside in late April.
Megill struggled for the Mets early last season, spending most of the summer in Syracuse.
However, he returned to the major leagues in late August, pitching to 2.32 ERA in the final sixth inning.
“It's just going to attack the strike zone and limit walks,” Megill said of the surge in the second half of the season. “The big thing early on was that I was walking a lot of people and the pitch count was standing up. …If I could limit the walk and three ball counts, I would be counted for each inning and would be healthy in shape.”
According to Mendoza, the Blackburn is used in multiple relief roles to extend the pitch count.
Right-handed players will be available as a starter starting in mid-April, when the Mets are expected to start employing a six-person rotation.
Blackburn had off-season surgery due to a cerebrospinal fluid leak.
“I feel like I've brought a lot of unknowns about how last year's season ended, taking into account the circumstances,” Blackburn said. “All I am at right now is that I feel I am always on the way to the end of my spring training. I feel that I am in good shape and in good shape, ready to start the year.”
How will Mendoza characterize his starting rotation?
“I feel really good about it,” he said. “We're talking about people who have things. We're talking about people who have different pitch types with Peterson. There's a lot of things we like. We feel very comfortable.”
