After Nolan McLean’s second start, he found himself in some rarified air among Mets’ pitchers early in their career. As it is always important to compare apples to apples, we looked back at the past nine starting pitchers that the Mets brought up that stuck around and had success to see just where McLean stacked up.

It turns out, he stacked up pretty damn well. Now, after winning his third start and becoming the first Met in history to win his first three games, we wanted to update the leaderboard and show how McLean is excelling in almost all areas of his game.

It should be noted that the pitching win, like all statistics, is an imperfect measurement of a pitcher’s performance. But for every ‘reliever who threw one pitch got the win,’ we sometimes get pitcher wins where the stat rings a

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