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Boomer & Gio

Boomer Compares McClean To Young Seaver

Boomer & Gio

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News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Jerry is here for his first update of the day, but first Boomer compared McLean to Tom Seaver, so that’s where we’re at this morning.

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0:00.0

Obviously, all of us, my fans are jacked up about Nolan McLean.

0:04.9

And for those of us who are older, he does remind us of a Hall of Fame pitcher that

0:12.8

pitched for the Mets when he was younger and was a fireballing fastballer and had a presence

0:19.1

on the mound.

0:19.7

Now, Nolan's a little bit bigger than the player than I'm talking about.

0:22.4

And unfortunately, the player that I'm talking about is a player who died during COVID, Tom Seaver.

0:27.9

And he has, I'm telling you, physically, they look very, very similar.

0:33.8

Their windups are very similar.

0:35.5

Their deliveries are very similar.

0:38.9

And I know it's only four games into this young man's career, but he has what I would call a little bit of grit.

0:47.1

And that's what you need. You need competitive grit. So you got him now. Your comp to Nolan

0:54.0

McLean is Tom Seaver, the greatest player in the history of the organization. And also one of my favorite players growing up. I mean, that's, you know. I'm just saying they look similar. They look. I'm not saying he's going to have a 15, 20 year career. I'm not going to say he's going to strike out 300 guys in a season.

1:10.9

I'm just telling you, he looks very similar.

1:14.3

You're talking about like mechanics and mechanics and the way he delivers the baseball.

1:18.4

And maybe that's a good thing because maybe that will alleviate the potential arm problems that

1:24.5

usually hit these guys, you these guys around this age.

1:31.6

Knock it on wood.

1:33.1

I mean, you're just getting out of control.

1:35.0

This is an over-you-skiy spot right now.

1:36.9

You've already got him being healthy for his entire

1:39.2

career and also comparing him

1:41.3

to Tom Seaver. And every time that a young

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