Clay Holmes Faces Challenges Ahead with the Mets This Week

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00:00For the New York Mets, Clay Holmes has two pivotal starts.

00:04One is against Freddie Peralta and the Milwaukee Brewers,

00:07and the other is against Max Freed and the New York Yankees.

00:10Now both are at home at Citi Field.

00:13Joe, what are you doing here?

00:17You know, Clay Holmes is one, too, that you start to worry about.

00:20Are we hitting that innings wall with him where he is just not looking quite as sharp?

00:25If you look at Clay Holmes' stats here in the last couple games,

00:28a good start against Atlanta where he got the W, went five innings,

00:33but he did walk four guys in that start.

00:35He walked six guys in the start before that against Atlanta,

00:38so he's got 12 walks in his last three outings.

00:40That does not make me feel good.

00:42I know the Yankee offense has been a little underwhelming recently,

00:44but considering you're going up against Freed and Peralta,

00:47I know the Mets are a really good team.

00:49They're a first-place caliber team, great theoretical offense.

00:52I can't do it.

00:53To me, I'm sitting him, and I'm also looking ahead

00:56and trying to see where we're at with the innings for this guy, too,

00:59because he is already, this season, at 88 innings pitched.

01:05Now, he hasn't gone over 70 innings in a season since 2021,

01:09so that's a long time.

01:11Last two years, actually, last three years,

01:13he capped out at 63 regular season innings,

01:16and then obviously some post-season innings for the Yankees.

01:20But Clay Holmes could be at a point where maybe you skip him in a turn here.

01:24I don't know what their plan is around the all-star break with Clay Holmes

01:27because maybe he does go to the bullpen at some point, too,

01:31depending on what you acquire here or what your rotation looks like.

01:34Mania, Montas, you know, those guys returning.

01:37You get Senga back.

01:38That's three spots.

01:39I don't think David Peterson comes out.

01:41So who is that final starter for the Mets?

01:43So when everything is healthy and everything is right,

01:46and this is without another addition of a big-time arm,

01:48which I still think is coming,

01:50you could be in a scenario where this is the peak value of Clay Holmes.

01:53You might want to look to ship him off,

01:54especially if you can't start him in a two-start week this week.

01:57When are you going to feel good again?

01:58Again, I don't like the walks.

02:00It's a sign of fatigue to me, and maybe you're seeing that.

02:02Maybe he gets a little bump in the all-star break, and he's better,

02:05maybe a little breather, and that's cool.

02:07But I don't know, Matt.

02:08Again, we're asking a guy to go from 60 innings to 160 innings,

02:12and I think that's a lot to ask.

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