Frayed Knot wrote: This is where Megill needs to start to show he's capable of more than five innings. Indeed, but ... start length is now far more a product of what the manager needs, and what he is willing to allow you to do, than it is of what a guy demonstrates he is capable of. Dude struck out 10 his last start, but got in the soup and was pulled after 85 pitches with one out to go in the fifth.