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Nolan McLean
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 214 lb · born Willow Spring, NC, USA · age 25 · draft 2023 rd 3 · played P 26 · MLB debut 2025-08-16
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-26): 2 G · 12.0 IP · 0.75 ERA · 9 SO · 1.25 WHIP
618 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipNolan McLean [Red Rookie Variation] #85 · 2026 Bowman · 474 recent sales 7N ▼2.8%
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The rookieNolan McLean #WF-12 · 2026 Topps Finest World’s Finest · 321 recent sales 7N ▼2.7%
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Scout’s note
McLean, 25, is a 6-foot-2 right-hander from Willow Spring, North Carolina — third round of 2023, called up in August. He has 219 strikeouts in 33 career appearances, which is why the page is here. But the board grade is withheld on purpose: the stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a flag from it — not even this one. The ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and that call is filed by hand.
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.79Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.79M
- Service time
- 0 yr 44 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year $0.8M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$791,500 (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, New York Mets.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.79M
- Guaranteed
- $0.79M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
Collect Nolan McLean
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The Bureau on Nolan McLean
The scouting press, in their own words
Seen a lot of stuff at the ballpark, but not this: the Padres are up to having 7 batters reach base successfully in a row without yet scoring a run. Albeit it is over two innings and against Carson Benge's arm recording more outs than that of Nolan McLean.
Nolan McLean's dominant 6 IP, 10 K, 0 R start summarized! ⤵️ https://t.co/sOMWuxXvN5
Umpire favor
+1.5 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
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