Tylor Megill will be the answer to a trivia question for the rest of baseball history as the Mets’ Opening Day starter in 2022. He is about to add to his trivia bona fides with the home opener start against the Marlins to Thursday. While the fans in attendance would rather the originally scheduled starter, Justin Verlander, to start the season, a teres major injury took away that plan.
However, if we look at Megill’s start on Saturday, there may be some optimism for Big Drip’s 2023 Citi Field debut.
While five innings, two earned runs, seven strikeouts, and two walks is a perfectly cromulent start from the seventh starter on your depth chart, Megill did a couple of things on Saturday that bode well for future performances.