The Mets have placed right-hander Tylor Megill on the 15-day injured list due to a shoulder strain. The team announced several other corresponding moves, including righty Adonis Medina being called up from Triple-A, and the selection of Tommy Hunter’s contract (as previously reported). Right-hander Jake Reed was also optioned to Triple-A, and infielder Gosuke Katoh was designated for assignment to open up a 40-man roster spot for Hunter.
Megill will be shut down for the next four weeks, and the team will then re-evaluate his status. While the situation is still somewhat fluid, this lengthy shutdown period will likely require a pretty notable ramp-up period afterwards, so it looks like Megill could miss the better part of two months. A move to the 60-day IL could eventually be possible, depending on New York’s 40-man roster needs and when more details are known about Megill’s status.
Megill has a 5.01 ERA over 41 1/3 innings and nine starts this season, though advanced metrics (3.03 xFIP, 3.24 SIERA) paint a far more favorable picture of the righty’s production. His 27% strikeout rate and 6.3% walk rate are both above the league average, even if hitters have found a lot of success in barreling Megill’s offerings. Megill’s numbers are clouded by one particularly dreadful start against the Nationals on May 11, as Megill allowed eight earned runs over just 1 1/3 innings of work.
The day after that start, Megill was sent to the IL due to right biceps inflammation, which sidelined him for almost a month. The righty didn’t fare well in two starts in between his IL visits, with an 8.10 ERA over 6 2/3 innings.
The 26-year-old’s early success was a big help to a Mets team that was shorthanded with pitching injuries, but now Megill has joined New York’s still-notable list of absent arms. Max Scherzer is set for a rehab start next week and could potentially be back from an oblique injury before June is over, though more will be known once Scherzer completes his rehab work. Jacob deGrom is tentatively set to return at some point in July, after missing the entire season due to a stress reaction in his throwing shoulder (and the last half of the 2021 season due to forearm problems).
Off-days on June 23, June 27, and June 30 will help the Mets manage their rotation, as they might need a replacement for Megill for just one start. Trevor Williams is probably the likeliest candidate to take that role, or the team could opt for a bullpen game. If Scherzer is able to return sooner rather than later, he could slide right into that rotation spot.
This is the second time in two months that Katoh has been designated for assignment, as his previous trip to the DFA wire resulted in the Mets claiming the infielder away from the Blue Jays. A longtime member of the Yankees’ farm system, Katoh made his MLB debut this season, appearing in eight games with Toronto. In 55 combined plate appearances with the Mets’ and Jays’ Triple-A affiliates this season, Katoh has only a .367 OPS.
Megill shut down for at least a month if he comes back this year I bet it’ll be as a reliever.
Even as a reliever, the max velocity/effort/strain approach to pitching isn’t good for any arm. Learn to “pitch” at 94 (his 2021 velocity), reach back for something extra once in a while to hit the 96-99,(what he was hitting back in April of this year regularly) and throw a change at 85-88. Throw the cutter more. ………or throw every fastball at 96-99 and watch games from the IL.
Lotta biomechanics experts here.
I’m honored to be in such informed company. I wonder how many moonlight for MLB teams…
@raisinsss anyone in the kinesiology field will tell you that humans were not built to throw overhand…….and this knowledge isn’t anything new……however, pitchers throwing all out instead of pitching is a thing of this era and the amount of injuries just keep piling up
As I said- honored. It’s a real treat.
@raisinsss …..me an expert? No…….but I learned to read, it’s a great skill to have! If you want to know as much as I do about arm injuries from throwing, read the article at the link or one of the hundreds just like it on the same subject. atlanticortho.com/throwing-injuries/
Some people recognize the difference between the consensus that throwing a baseball is bad (among other things, such as being tall, which he is also quite guilty of) and your very specific prescription to fix it. Some other people don’t recognize that difference.
But what do I know; I’m simply an illiterate trying to health science with an actual, literal expert in it.
You’re right, but chicks dig the 99mph fastball and DeGrom gets paid a lot for throwing it, as well as not throwing it while he’s on the IR. Example: Strasberg may never throw the same again, but when he did, he got paid. And while those players may be lofty expectations, Zach Wheeler was another who got paid. The harder you through, the more teams are willing to cut slack, invest, and ultimately pay if they see some success.
Wheeler actually turned himself into a ground ball pitcher and saw tremendous success. He still has the velocity, but he changed his approach. It’s something deGrom may do as well. These guys are just that good.
Was Reed just optioned or DFA’d? They need the roster spot for Hunter.
I gather they had an open spot because I count 40 now with Hunter. There are others who could be put on the 60-day to free up a spot if necessary. I’m not sure how close McCann is to returning, but he must be out close to 60 days by now.
I guess McCann has not been out as long as I thought. The injury was on 5/13 and he’s playing rehab games now, so he could be back next week. Scherzer was injured five days later, but should be back before 60 days as well.
Reed was optioned and Katoh was dfa’d
What professional sport has the most injuries?
I’m starting to think it’s baseball.
prolly NFL. less reported on injuries maybe, but a lot of dudes seem to play though stuff, sometimes several injuries at once.
NFL for sure. The contact element means basically everyone has some type of injury at any given time. Of course in the NFL, the culture is that you play through injuries even to your own detriment, or else you run the risk of being cut.
To normalize, you’re probably looking at something like average proportion of lost expected player value per season relative to total player salaries.
If we’re just counting body parts that hurt, it’s probably football.
Simple google search…..NFL has 4-5 x more injuries nflinjuryanalytics.com/2017/06/06/just-how-dangero…
This post only considers one possible way to measure injury rates: per player-game. The results would likely look substantially different if we used another, more precise denominator such as player-hours. The NHL numbers, in particular, would look higher relative to the NBA and MLB in such an analysis since hockey players on average play a lower proportion of each game than baseball or basketball players. So this is not the be-all end-all answer for which sport is the “most dangerous.”
Along those same lines, although the risk of being hurt in any given NFL game is way higher athletes play way more games in the NBA, NHL, and MLB. So the differences across sports in an individual athlete’s risk of being injured in a season are going to be much less than the differences in injury rates I’ve shown here. Maybe I’ll take a stab at calculating risks in another post!
As the original post mentioned the “most injuries,” if the rate of injuries is 4-5 times higher in NFL than MLB, but MLB plays 10x the games, which would have the “most injuries” per season?
However, as an accused illiterate I have no idea what I just posted so you’ll have to take it with a grain of salt, Dr.
On a per-game basis, it’s the NFL by a mile. Teams are lucky if they go one game without someone getting injured, and that’s even with players gritting it out and underreporting. The roster sizes are bigger, but almost literally every game has injuries.
Yeah, but one football game is = about 10 baseball games relative to season length.
Per game, absolutely. But not sure how useful that is in comparison to other sports.
It’s karma for when Megill’s man Dan shot Rocky Raccoon…. who fell back to his room…. Only to find Gideon’s bible.
I like this beatles reference… well played
Try calling Megill Nancy and see what happens.
He calls himself Lil
Well, tonight’s game is something. Two things I noticed.
1 – Clearly any Mets fan want to complain about batter’s hit, Canha leaned into the one he got hit on in the 6th. Easily seen. This was what they did the last couple of years too. I said I would refrain from commenting about the complaints until I saw the Marlins face them head-to-head. First night, and it was seen. Let’s see how the rest of the season goes head-to-head with the hit batters.
2 – Leave it to the Marlins relievers to bring a nuclear blow torch to a fire. 1 1/2 years of bullpen ineptitude and counting. Kim Ng, learn your Marlins history. Fredi Gonzalez got fired many years ago by the Marlins because of his determination to keep bringing in Renyel “Ford” Pinto to blow games. Keep short-changing the Marlins bullpen and see where it takes you.
I don’t hear Mets fan complaining about being hit. Most laugh. Also, Canha did not lean into it. I was watching the game. He was hit without his own doing. They were hit 4 times tonight lol and 3 of them were pretty bad. None intentional I think. Pinto was so bad. Dont you miss the days of Rob Nen, a thing of beauty for the marlins old school bullpen.
Go look at the replay of Canha. He leaned into it. His first reaction was back, then he dragged his leg forward into the pitch when he saw it was offspeed. Clearly leaned into it.
Yeah, Renyel “Ford” Pinto was bad. And the worst part is that he combined with master of chronic labial growth, Kevin Gregg. Those two took turns blowing games. I never saw anything like it until we got Heath Bell in 2012, then last year with Anthony Bass.
Yes, I do miss the days of Rob Nen. He was a true mold of a Closer. He challenged you basically saying, “here it comes over the plate. You still can’t do anything with it” like real Closers do. Not this stuff we’ve seen with guys on the current Marlins bullpen and other years of us having bullpen disasters, who basically pitch trying to nip a corner because they’re afraid to get hit. Shoot, I miss even a guy like Matt Lindstrom. He may have gotten hit around a lot, but he had a pair on him as he continued to pound his fastball in the zone. We could’ve had Jansen or Kimbrel for the money spent on the additional corner OF, which we did not need. Instead, we have this crud of guys in the bullpen pitching like they are talking in the bullpen saying, “Oh dude, I can totally stink worse than you. I bet I blow this 5-run lead in 6 pitches.” Then the next guy says, “Dude, I can outdo that. I can blow this other 5-run lead without even giving up a hit.” Then the next guy says, “Oh, don’t challenge me. I can totally go in there and make sure that none of my pitches ever get to the catcher.”
Canha leaned into a pitch and the biggest thing you noticed about the game was that Mets fans complain about hit batsmen?
And then you felt the need to post that on an article about Taylor Megill’s injury status?
Do you have any clue how pathetic you are?
Red Herring Alert!
Upset that you guys won’t have that complaining any more as I will call it out every time you play us, and one of the HBPs was a batter leaning into the pitch like Canha did tonight?
Hey, at least you got 3 legit HBPs to complain about. But you ain’t getting that Canha one because that was clear, and you know it too.
And to be clear, your team, your fan base and your media has been making the HBPs into a big thing all season long. When the discussions were going on here, I said I wouldn’t say anything until I saw the Marlins play you all head-to-head. I did mention back then that I did see your team does crowd the plate and lean into pitches the last couple of years, but I still chose to refrain on the comments about this year until I saw head-to-head. That’s why I mention your fan base complaining.
It’s simple, if your hitters are crowding the plate and leaning into pitches, you’re going to compile HBPs. This whole thing about the team complaining is just gamesmanship to hide the fact that every time they see an offspeed pitch, they lean into it. They have been doing this for the last couple of years. It’s obviously a part of the game, but don’t whine about how many times you’re getting hit when you’re initiating a lot of it.
Funny thing, I’d love to compare the two team’s broadcasts when the Canha HBP happened. The Marlins broadcast showed the replay a couple of times and discreetly stated, “well, if you want to get hit by a pitch, it would be a soft one.” I bet Ron Darling, Keith and the rest of the Mets broadcast was screaming for the apocalypse and didn’t show a replay of Canha leaning into the pitch.
@ Marlins FanBase: it IS a big thing when they are hitting you in the helmet, ie Lindor, Alonso. Don’t rewrite the history of this season to suit your narrative. If the batter is in the batter’s box, tell your pitcher to keep it over the plate. It is a very basic rule of baseball. The Mets pitchers have also hit their share of batters with back door sliders on the rear foot of the batter IN THE BOX. It is what is is. Stop making excuses.
@EasternLeagueVeteran
I notice that you didn’t argue against what I pointed out in that AB by Canha. Also, see @VonPurpleHayes’ comment below.
Also, like I said, it’s a part of the game, but don’t whine when your team routinely crowds the plate and leans into pitches to initiate the HBPs. The Mets have been doing this for the last couple of years, so your fan base is trying to rewrite history by whining like people are trying to intentionally hit your players when there have been multiple moments when they have been leaning into the pitches.
And to address what you did mention, helmet hits are never good and never endorsed. Those are usually accidental. However, your fan base and media keep trying to use the total number of times hit as the support for the whining. However, those high numbers of HBPs are the result of your players leaning in for many of them. Again, stop whining when your team keeps initiating a good number of the HBPs.
Canha led the AL in HBP last year. He leans in all the time. Part of his game. He’s a smart player.
@VonPurpleHayes, I did say it was part of the game above. My point was about how the team, their media and fan base keep whining about the total number of HBPs, but they are the ones initiating a lot of them by leaning into them. My thing is for them and their media and fan base to stop trying to use the total number of HBPs as support for them whining when a lot of that total is initiated by them leaning in…as they have been doing for a couple of seasons already. There’s more intent by some of their players trying to get free bases than there is other teams trying to hit them. Gamesmanship to counterstrike what they’re doing or not, they need to stop whining. If you take out the times they lean into pitches, they don’t get hit any more than any other team.
SNY stirs the pot. They have a great announcer team, but you have to remember it’s 2 former Mets and a die-hard Mets fan. Sometimes they say passionate things that steer the fanbase in the same direction. They literally play clips of the Mets and Phillies fighting throughout the decades to get fans riled up. I’ve never seen any other network do that. I agree that they blow the Mets HBP thing out of proportion. When Lindor and Alonso got hit on the helmets, those were legit terrifying moments and angry reactions were justified. When Canha leans his back knee into one, we don’t need to hear how the Mets are hit so much. It’s ridiculous. Not every HBP should be judged the same way. So I’m with you there. Love the SNY crew; love their knowledge and passion but they do say some baffling things from time to time.
@VonPurpleHayes
Exactly, They say and do a lot of ridiculous things that no other broadcast team does. And yes, I always consider who these three are to the Mets. I’d even expand on who they are.
I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember when Keith was playing during the time Tim McCarver was doing their broadcasts. For those that remember, McCarver, like many broadcasters back then, was objective no matter who his employers were. With Keith, I remember when he was among several Mets that took issue of how Tim McCarver would call things out when they needed to be. I remember Keith specifically in his complaints stating something about how people would laugh at the Braves “America’s Team” campaign and the homerish angle their broadcast team would take in it, but Keith stated that at least they stood behind their players no matter what. So, when it comes to Keith, there’s that side of him who’s an advocate of that homer BS angle. I still don’t get how Keith can say some of his stuff with a straight face, especially when he’s praising garbage players on the Mets during a game, and in the same game, is dissecting All Stars on opposing teams. Seriously, I remember a game several years back when the Mets and Marlins were playing and Keith made Matt den Dekker sound as good as Stanton and better than Yelich and Ozuna. I remember me and buddies and my kid saying that Keith needs to stop riding the white horse when we heard him state that. den Dekker was gone after that season and no longer a hyped up name again.
With Ron, I actually respect his work away from SNY when he’s not pushing the Mets agenda. When he’s on MLB Network and TBS, etc. just doing baseball and being informative based on his experience having played into the MLB level as an All Star caliber pitcher, he’s great. But when he does the SNY stuff or when he brings the Mets agenda to the other networks, he just destroys his credibility. Personally, I feel that he should just leave SNY so he doesn’t feel obligated to ever push the Mets agenda. He’s shortchanging himself and his career. And of note, my favorite moment from him was when he was addressing the Cano suspension, and he made the mention of the Mets broadcast team using hyperbole for praising their players. That was awesome because he was so upset at Cano when he made that statement, because Cano embarrassed them.
As for Gary Cohen, I think we can agree that he’s a complete homer buffoon. His role is to just man the Mets Kool-Aid stand just like Anthony diComo does at the MLB website.
For me, I just am not into the whole homer broadcast efforts whenever any broadcaster does it no matter which team they work for. As a diehard fan of baseball, I find it insulting to the intelligence of a fan and a fan base. It almost says that the only way we can keep our audience is by feeding them BS that makes the team sound perfect, and that they only lose because of some blah blah blah excuse instead of the fact that the team isn’t as good as their broadcast team hypes them to be, and that the teams who are winning are just better than them. As a Marlins fan, I know what my team is. If they had a broadcast team like the SNY ones, with Keith trying to make Willians Astudillo sounds as good or better than Pete Alonso, the the entire team insinuating that we only lose because Jon Berti and Zach Pop got injured or when the bullpen comes in because the wind is unfortunately blowing at 5 MPH at a 72 degree angle which pivots the mosquitoes in the ballpark, I would tune out.
And you’re being kind in using the term “baffling” to describe some of the fecal matter they say. Knowing who Keith and Ron were are players, you know when they’re participating in those statements, they’re saying stuff that they don’t even believe themselves…or to use Ron’s terminology…Mets Hyperbole.
I do believe some of it is network mandated. Cohen was always a homer (which is fine), but he changed drastically when SNY came into play. Now he’s a snarky homer, demeaning opposing teams subtly. I really think SNY told him to lean into that. It is what it is. I’m a Phillies fan, and quite frankly their TV crew is pretty awful. They’re homers (which is fine), but worse, they’re boring. At least the SNY crew isn’t boring. FWIW, I like the Marlins crew quite a bit.
Does anyone know him as Nancy?