Josh Holliday didn\u2019t have to give it too much thought. He would\u2019ve been more shocked if his two former stars were not thriving as professional baseball players.<\/p>\n
So to see both Nolan McLean and Carson Benge succeed in the minor leagues with the Mets was only the next logical step for the former Oklahoma State standouts. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re both studs,\u201d the Cowboys head coach told The Post. \u201cThere\u2019s not much Nolan McLean can\u2019t do, whether it was throw a football, shoot a basketball, hit a baseball, pitch a baseball, catch a baseball, just a remarkable world-class athlete.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Benge] is a unique player. Very rarely in college baseball [do] you see a hitter collect as many hits to the opposite field as they do the pull side, and over Carson\u2019s career, he was pretty close to having a balanced number of base hits to all quadrants of the field. That\u2019s just a rare hitter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Holliday didn\u2019t have to give it too much thought. He would\u2019ve been more shocked if his two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,9638,101,3967,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-44291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brooklyn-cyclones","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-minor-leagues","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114547124162333473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}