Nolan McLean - New York Mets pitcher on his crazy 2025, growing in Christ and staying humble
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
New York Mets pitcher Nolan McLean joins Matt Forte to talk about his 2025 baseball year, making his MLB debut, choosing baseball over football, growing in his faith and 2026 expectations.
Chapters:
- (01:31) Nolan the football player
- (05:25) Choosing baseball over football at Oklahoma State
- (07:58) His MLB debut
- (14:13) Expectations for 2026
- (16:18) His testimony of faith
- (22:41) Posting Daily Devotional on Instagram
- (25:19) Who is Jesus?
- (33:02) John 3:16 Syracuse Mets jersey
- (34:52) - Nolan playing Matt Forte on Madden as a kid
- (37:07) - His sports heroes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.0 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.0 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.0 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.0 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:32.3 | What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm your host, Matt Forte, here with my guy, Jason Romano. |
| 0:37.2 | And I'm excited today to talk to Nolan McLean of the New York Mets pitcher. And excited to talk to him |
| 0:44.6 | because, man, his faith is a strong one. It's one that you, is visible. And it's not something |
| 0:50.5 | that you see every day in professional sports that guys really live out their face. |
| 0:54.6 | So excited to talk to Nolan. |
| 0:56.2 | Also reminds me of my childhood favorite picture, Nolan Ryan, who used to throw Pete as well. |
| 1:01.7 | But man, you're a little bit different. |
| 1:03.4 | You're unique. |
| 1:04.1 | I mean, starting off when you went to OSU, a friend of the holidays who we know has been on |
| 1:10.4 | the podcast and are a great member of PAO, a family that has done a lot in the community. |
| 1:17.7 | But you more a two-sport player, which I'm excited to talk about because of the football aspect of that. |
| 1:25.0 | And so talk to a little bit about how that went, you know, |
| 1:28.0 | deciding to go to OSU and being a two-sport athlete. Yeah, I mean, ever since I was growing up, |
| 1:34.4 | like I never had a favorite sport. I was always playing basketball, football, baseball all year |
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