You know what you would want if you were the Mets and watched Nolan McLean\u2019s MLB debut?<\/p>\n
More.<\/p>\n
McLean offered a wonderful appetizer of possibilities. He brought his thick reservoir of pitches, notably a prime Charlie Mortonesque penchant to spin a ball at an otherworldly rate to get back into a count. He showed he could win in the strike zone and seduce outside it. The righty exhibited his well-recognized athleticism with a defensive play of the game that unified quick reflexes with flair. And he sure didn\u2019t look like he had any buckle in front of 42,978 at Citi Field hungering for a reason to believe that McLean\u2019s first outing could serve not just as a wonderful beginning for him, but as a beachhead against two-plus months now of dreadful Mets performance \u2014 notably out of the rotation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation did not seem too big for him,\u201d Carlos Mendoza praised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know what you would want if you were the Mets and watched Nolan McLean\u2019s MLB debut? More.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,475,45391,82,2091,2089],"class_list":["post-75406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-nolan-mclean","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}