{"id":153955,"date":"2025-07-05T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/153955\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:12:09","slug":"mets-notes-butto-senga-megill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/153955\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Notes: Butto, Senga, Megill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets placed right-hander Jose Butto<\/a> on the 15-day injured list on Friday, with a retroactive placement date of July 1.\u00a0 Right-hander Chris Devenski<\/a> was called up from Triple-A to take Butto\u2019s spot on the active roster.\u00a0 Butto is dealing with an undisclosed illness, and manager Carlos Mendoza told reporters (including the New York Post\u2019s Mike Puma<\/a>) that the club expects to activate the righty for the first game back after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n

Now in his fourth season in New York, Butto has been used as a full-time reliever for the first time in his MLB career and the bottom-line results have been solid.\u00a0 He has a 2.47 ERA over 43 2\/3 innings and 31 appearances, albeit with a troublesome 11.2% walk rate and a 21.8% strikeout rate that is also below the league average.\u00a0 Butto\u2019s 4.01 SIERA reflects the sizeable gap between his actual performance and expected performance, though he does have a strong 49.6% grounder rate, and very good chase and whiff rates despite his relative lack of strikeouts.<\/p>\n

While Butto\u2019s illness doesn\u2019t appear to be too serious, his absence creates yet another hole in the Mets\u2019 injury-riddled pitching staff.\u00a0 The Amazins now have 13 different pitchers on their IL, ranging from relatively minor situations like Butto to multiple hurlers who have been out for extended periods of time, or won\u2019t pitch again in 2025.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest names on the IL might be nearing a return, as Kodai Senga<\/a> is slated to pitch for Double-A Binghampton in a rehab outing today.\u00a0 Senga hasn\u2019t pitched since June 12, when a right hamstring strain cut short a start against the Nationals.\u00a0 Since it was just a Grade 1 strain, however, the Mets were optimistic that Senga wouldn\u2019t miss too much time, and it is possible Senga might need just the one rehab outing before rejoining the big league rotation.<\/p>\n

After injuries sidelined Senga for almost all of the 2024 season, he has returned in good form this year, posting a 1.47 ERA over 13 starts and 73 2\/3 innings.\u00a0 A 4.14 SIERA reveals that Senga isn\u2019t nearly as dominant as his ERA suggests, though his Statcast<\/a> numbers are generally above average apart a 10.6% walk rate is only in the 17th percentile of all pitchers.\u00a0 Nonetheless, Senga\u2019s relatively quick return is a huge boost to a Mets rotation that has been short-handed by injuries all season, let alone this second wave of health woes that have hit the staff in the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Tylor Megill<\/a> was one of those most recent absences, as the right-hander hit the 15-day IL in mid-June due to an elbow sprain.\u00a0 Despite the ominous nature of such injuries, Megill said at the time of the IL placement that he was only dealing with inflammation, and MLB.com\u2019s Anthony DiComo<\/a> wrote yesterday that a recent MRI showed that the inflammation had decreased to the point that Megill can resume throwing.<\/p>\n

Since Megill has been shut down for three weeks, he\u2019ll begin with some light work throwing off flat ground today, but the hope is that he won\u2019t take too long to fully ramp up to starting readiness.\u00a0 Megill has a 3.95 ERA\/3.61 SIERA in 68 1\/3 innings and 14 starts for New York this season, with an outstanding 29.2% strikeout rate that helps cover for a subpar 10.8% walk rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets placed right-hander Jose Butto on the 15-day injured list on Friday, with a retroactive placement date…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,6965,16760,1716,4,1326],"class_list":{"0":"post-153955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chris-devenski","10":"tag-jose-butto","11":"tag-kodai-senga","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-tylor-megill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114801275423899147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}