In his start on Tuesday night against the Tigers, Nolan McLean ran into his first real struggle as a starting pitcher. Issuing back to back walks in the second inning, followed by back to back singles, McLean put the Mets in the hole in his first inning of work. But after that inning, McLean buckled down, allowing just two more baserunners over the subsequent five innings of work.

If you need some outside reinforcement of just how nasty his stuff was, take a listen to how the Detroit broadcast team talked about his fifth inning performance.

As we’ve done after his second and third start, let’s compare McLean to some of his relative contemporaries who came up with the Mets and found some success over the past decade plus. As always, the small sample size caveat applies.

Especially in a 2

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