• Rating: 2.08 • 2025 stats: 7 G, 7 IP, 6.43 ERA, 6.56 FIP, -0.1 bWAR (all stats AZ only) • Date of birth: October 31, 1989 (age 35 season) • 2025 earnings: $750K (buyout of option) plus minor-league contract • 2026 status: [shrugs indifferently]

I’m not sure I’m going to be able to cover McGough at the same length as yesterday’s twelve-hundred word rant on the topic of Jordan Montgomery, but who knows? For there is still a bit to say on the unexpected return of McGough. I imagine most fans thought we had seen the last of him when the team declined their side of his 2025 mutual option, choosing instead to pay the $750K buyout. After all, his tenure here had been underwhelming. A mediocre 2023, with a 4.73 ERA, was followed by a flat-out terrible one in 2024. McGough had a 7.44 ERA

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