The Inside Story Of The Mets Promoting Nolan McLean, Jonah Tong | 'Baseball Isn't Boring'

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): Maybe the most important addition to any roster to date this season has been the Mets' promotion of starting pitcher Nolan McLean, who is off to a historic start. So, how did they know he was ready? Bradfo catches up with Syracuse Mets manager Dick Scott to get insight into the decisions to promote both McLean and fellow starter Jonah Tong. The guys also take a deep dive into how we should view the development of players as they progress from one level to the next these days. This will make a better baseball fan heading into the season's crunch time. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.2	Sometimes it's just perfectly timed. This time is that time. So we've had on Dick Scott manager of the Syracuse Mets before.
1:12.3	Always great insight, always great analysis, always great education.
1:19.1	To get that perspective from a AAA manager, I love it because there's so many things to talk about player development, about specific players, whatever it is.
1:31.4	Remember the first time we talked to him, I remember Jose Iglesias.
1:34.9	Nobody had a better perspective for Jose Iglesis getting called up to the Mets and the whole OMG stuff and what he meant and why he was the perfect guy at the right time
1:46.3	and sure enough he was last year well we got back up with dick scott friend of the program
1:54.1	this time you talk about the met promoting some key guys.
2:01.2	What that has looked like, why they did it, why these guys are ready, all of it.
2:08.6	And why do we say this is perfectly time?
2:10.7	Because one of the guys that we talk about is Nolan McLean.
2:15.0	Another guy who's been on the podcast.
2:21.9	When Nolan was on the podcast, he was a two-way player.
2:24.1	Now he's just a one-way player.
2:26.4	But what a way that has been.
2:28.4	Pitcher for the New York Mets.
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