Free Link to Mets360: Tylor Megill vs. David Peterson, Adam Ottavino’s extended good stretch, the feast or famine offense

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By Brian Joura

Most fans put Tylor Megill and David Peterson in the same boat. They view them as okay depth starters but not anyone you want to write into ink for the 2024 starting rotation. That’s not an unreasonable take. However, my opinion is that Peterson is a solid back end of the rotation guy while Megill should be moved permanently to the pen.

Much was made by Gary Cohen last [Saturday] night about Megill getting his season-long ERA under the 5.00 mark. However, Megill’s high this year in ERA was 5.64, which happened on 8/11. Since then, Megill has 31.2 IP with a 3.13 ERA. Those are good results. Yet in that same time frame, he has a 5.47 FIP, meaning he’s been quite lucky to post an ERA that low. Megill has allowed a 1.547 WHIP and a 1.7 HR/9 in this stretch and those numbers, well, they’re not good.

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