{"id":595195,"date":"2026-02-27T01:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/595195\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:37:18","slug":"mets-nolan-mclean-is-ready-to-show-team-usa-hes-built-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/595195\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Nolan McLean is ready to show Team USA he&#8217;s &#8216;built for this&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Nolan McLean made his first impression at major league camp when he won a 10-pitch battle against Juan Soto in live batting practice earlier this spring in Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, he started for the first time in a Grapefruit League game, giving up just a hit and a walk in four innings in a 5-0 win over the Astros at Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.<\/p>\n<p>And the next time he takes the mound, it will be on an even bigger stage, as the 24-year-old, who impressed over eight starts after being called up to the Mets in mid-August, will <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/22\/sports\/mets-nolan-mclean-fired-up-for-wbc-chance-at-bragging-rights-after-usa-hockey-gold\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">be pitching for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And according to Carlos Mendoza, you won\u2019t see a difference in McLean in any of those settings. He\u2019s ready for anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Nolan McLean made his first impression at major league camp when he won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,2517,185,428,151,4819,4820],"class_list":{"0":"post-595195","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-mets","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkmets","15":"tag-nolan-mclean","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-spring-training","19":"tag-team-usa","20":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116140038711625093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595195","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=595195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}