Jonah Tong is scheduled on Friday to become the second highly regarded Mets pitching prospect to debut in the major leagues this season, joining Nolan McLean.

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The bar is set high for measuring success in a major league pitching debut with the Mets.

We took time this week to rank the eight-best such starts over the past 15 years among highly regarded prospects in the organization.

1️⃣ Matt Harvey: The lede from The Post’s game story chronicling the right-hander’s major league debut on July 26, 2012 in Arizona: “Matt Harvey’s heat could have killed a cactus.”