What should Mets fans expect from Jonah Tong's MLB debut tonight?

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00:00We also saw Nolan McClain we saw him come up turn heads in his first three starts tonight is Jonah Tong's turn

00:05What are realistic expectations for his MLB debut and do you think he can feed off the energy

00:10That McClain has brought to this Mets club

00:13Yeah so I'm trying to manage my personal

00:17Expectations because every

00:19Like prospect guru that I talk to I saw you talked to Ernest Dove

00:24The other day and the the book is that

00:27The Tong is supposed to have a higher ceiling he definitely is the best

00:32Projected pitch of the two

00:35Pitchers of the two players his fastball seems to be

00:39Pretty electric the the numbers and and what is k per nine is how many how many swings and misses

00:45He's been able to get between double a and triple a this season

00:49I just

00:50If he's better than Nolan McClain, then how is it possible for a Mets fan to not overreact?

00:57I know what Nolan McClain's been so far. I don't remember

01:01Like seeing a pitcher be able to throw this many pitches when they've been called up with the Mets for strikes

01:08It's very max scherzer

01:10Like that one season that first half of the season when scherzer was a new york met where

01:15He had his he had command of so many different pitches and what's funny

01:19Nolan McClain the book on him was that

01:22The there were control issues and you did see that in his first start and just haven't seen it at all in his next two

01:28If jonathan is predicted to be better than him, then yeah, the the hype will be insane

01:34I think tonight the thing I am concerned about is a marlins team that likes to put the ball in play

01:39Just flatly doing that

01:41Not being the the swing and miss machine that he's been able to

01:46To face in in triple a and double a batters

01:50Uh, he's going to be facing some major league competition tonight that knows how to put good pitches in play

01:55And I I hopefully look forward to seeing a positive first debut

02:01But I recognize if this was against the phillies and actually have much more confidence because they're a team that likes to chase

02:06They're a team that swings and misses a ton

02:08Uh, but yeah, a marlins team it'll it'll hopefully

02:12Hopefully my worries about a team that plays the contact won't be that big a deal and he'll have a solid first debut in the majors