Nolan McLean is about to change EVERYTHING...

Nolan McLean is about to change everything. Well, he was awesome and pitched another gem for the Mets to complete their huge sweep of the Phillies. McLean has been downright historic and his emergence has come at the perfect time for the team. I'm Adam Choyt, your host for today here on Mets Digest. And before I dig in and all that, I just want to give you guys a quick heads up to please subscribe. Because as you can see, nearly 68%, of you guys watching these videos are not subscribed. So please just take a quick second to do that. It is appreciated for sure. Thank you. So let's get into the meat and potatoes of this video. What a performance last night by Nolan McLean, his third career start. The Mets swept the Phillies. They're four games out of first place. What are they, four and a half now ahead of the Reds and the Wild Cards. So things are looking up for the Mets, and let's dive in on it. There's the result from last night. As you can see, a 6-0 victory for the Mets. It was an electric night out at Citi Field. And I just saw a stat earlier this morning before I recorded this video, seeing that the Mets actually outdrew the Yankees this past week and have outdrew them for some time in this month. So that's another little plus to see that the fans are out at Citi Field supporting this team. But there you can see the results here from the Mets. Twitter X account, a beautiful, beautiful sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies. and those are the current standings as you can see the Mets are four games back of the Phillies as we work our way towards September just four games left here in August for the Mets this weekend versus the Marlins a big series um out at Citi Field and here you can see the wild card standings with the Mets four and a half games ahead of the Reds who've been uh getting beat up by the Dodgers the this these past few days uh this week so that's that's that's been helpful too, given the Mets a little bit of a cushion, some breathing room. The Padres are only two and a half ahead of the Mets right now, so that's another thing to keep an eye on as the Mets look to continue climbing up the standings. And those are Nolan McLean's numbers from last night. Downright filthy, throwing six pitches, eight innings. Not six pitches in the game, six pitches of six in terms of the variety of his arsenal, six pitches, but eight innings pitched. Uh, four, four, uh, four hits, no runs, no earned runs, no walks, and six Ks, just an electric, electric, uh, performance by McLean. And you could see in the, in the eighth inning how badly the team wanted to, uh, to keep the shutout intact. As with, uh, first and third, both, uh, Soto and Nimmo launched homes, uh, launched throws from the outfield to home plate, attempting to cut down a potential, uh, tagging up, tagging up runner and they held him at third both times so shutout intact victory intact let's dive a little bit more into McLean's electric performances so far uh for the Mets this is Anthony DiComo from mlb.com featuring a fastball that hit 96 miles per hour a curveball that bent as tightly as any in the sport and four other pitches he mixed in liberally over eight innings McLean flummoxed one of the NL's top offenses after allowing one single to Alec Bohm in the second inning the right-hander retired 15 consecutive batters before permitting another base runner McLean became the first Mets pitcher to earn each of to earn a win in each of his first three appearances something even Tom Seaver or Dwight Gooden never accomplished in so doing he gave New York uh continued hope that it can make something of this season so that's from from Anthony Teccomo that's that's great to see Jonah Tom of course coming up uh Friday so a little bit of a youth movement uh coming uh to the team uh late here and that's that's great to see seems to be injecting some energy into the into the roster into the franchise into the team along with a uh exploding performing offense that's suddenly getting clutch hits in August so combine that with some youth movement in the rotation the Mets are starting to roll and I am starting to get excited about it so let's continue to celebrate Nolan McLean's uh emergence with the New York Mets uh yeah let's just let's just celebrate some of these great moments from from last night and dig into some of the stats here you see from SNY uh Nolan McLean getting his shower from Sean Mana his Gatorade shower blue Gatorade as he had his post-game interview on field you can hear the crowd of course reacting with excitement to seeing that live great crowd last night at Citi Field I can't uh repeat that enough and here's a great shot from John DeMarcico um from SNY of course always doing a great job the crew and team with SNY is the best broadcast in Major League Baseball and this is just a cool shot uh of the skyline and the sunset and Nolan McLean's intense glare and stare uh superimposed on on top of that so just a just a beautiful shot that i thought was worth sharing. Definitely check out more of John DeMarisco's stuff on X, and you can see some of the highlights from the broadcast in terms of his visual highlights. Here you go. Here's David Lennon. The Mets batted 568-21 for 37 with runners in scoring position during a three-game sweep of the Phillies. I don't know if that is sustainable, but I definitely think that it's It's a great thing to see that the Mets are starting to hit with runners in scoring position, have been hitting with runners in scoring position, and just beat up the Phillies this past week. It was just a wonderful, wonderful thing to see. Maybe even demoralized the Phillies, to be honest. Here's another from Op to Stats. Nolan McLean of the Mets, the first Major League Baseball pitcher to have a 3-0 record, 20 plus innings 20 plus strikeouts sub 200 opposing batting average over the first three starts uh his first three career starts since Randy Johnson in 1988 this dude is doing historic things nolan mclean is doing historic things it almost makes me a little bit word is not the right uh the right word for it but Jonah Tong is a higher ranked prospect than Nolan McLean And Jonah Tong has the most strikeouts of any pitcher in the minor leagues this season. So it will be interesting to see how he is going to match Nolan McLean's epic performances so far, his historic performances so far. I don't expect it, to be honest with you. I think that's a little bit unreasonable. We want Jonah Tong to perform well and do great. But to expect him to come out and match this, I think that's a big ask. but definitely exciting times uh for the New York uh Mets these right here are Nolan McLean stats so far a little bit of a closer look three and zero like we mentioned 1.1 WAR 0.89 ERA through three starts and a 0.69 WHIP that is just ridiculous uh we got 21 Ks in twenty and a third innings more K's than innings pitched uh just four walks just 10 hits just a couple of earned runs just beautiful beautiful performances from Nolan McLean super exciting to to watch him pitch people were uh were uh making some comparisons on on the interwebs talking about uh who Nolan McLean might remind them of i saw some Maddox drops i saw some David Cone drops i saw some Max Scherzer drops. Scherzer's not a bad comparison at Cone. In terms of the movement, McLean's pitches have a lot of movement, no matter what he's throwing, be it the sweeper or his two-seam fastball. Just getting a lot of great movement and just electric stuff so far from him. He hasn't even had to really throw high 90s. He's not throwing 100. It just goes to show that if you have command and you have great stuff, you can be successful in the major in the major leagues and to even see him you know throughout the the game last night and they mentioned this on the broadcast a couple of times how he would get frustrated when he would throw a ball and he did not throw very many of them in last night's game there's a ridiculous strike to ball ratio of course no walks in the game as well he's a he's a perfectionist in all the best ways out there on the mound here's some NYM stats Nolan McLean He became the first Mets pitcher in franchise history to begin their career 3-0 in their first three games. Yeah, just can't reiterate the historic nature of that accomplishment enough. And, you know, it's maybe a surprising one that that has never happened with the team being in existence since 1962, but it has not, and now it has. Here's from Mike Mayer. List of Mets pitchers under 25 years old with back-to-back starts, seven innings, no walks, and at least six strikeouts. McLean, Syndergaard, Isringhausen, Dwight Gooden, John Matlack, and Tom Seaver. Not a bad list at all to be a part of. We can split hairs when it comes to the career trajectory of Noah Syndergaard and how his career played out. Of course, Jason Isringhausen had a little bit of a longer career, of course, as a successful closer in baseball. But there's just stat after stat, anecdote after anecdote just seems to be coming out yesterday, today, about just digging deeper into the historic nature of Nolan McLean's beginning of his career so far. Just super exciting to see, super, super great to see, good stuff all around. But what do you guys think? Is Nolan McLean a star? Is he a superstar? Is he going to be one of the best pitchers? He looks like one of the best pitchers in baseball already, but what's the ceiling for this guy? What's the ceiling for Jonah Tong? What's the ceiling for the 2025 New York Mets? Will they win the division? can they win the division can they go further this year than they did last year let me know what you guys think in the comments like subscribe do all the things and let's go