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Clay Holmes could be a potential trade piece for the Mets who will be sellers as the MLB trade deadline approaches. Corey Sipkin for New York Post<\/p>\nA Clay Holmes showcase appeared to go according to plan.<\/p>\n
The recovering Mets right-hander, who is likely to be used as trade bait by Monday, completed four scoreless innings with Low-A St. Lucie on Tuesday night in what was his second and likely final rehab start.<\/p>\n
Holmes, who maxed out with a 94.1 mph sinker and allowed two hits while walking two and striking out three, might have thrown his final 59 pitches (37 strikes) in the Mets organization.<\/p>\n
But not necessarily: It is also possible that he remains on regular rest and starts Sunday \u2014 one day before the deadline \u2014 for the Mets when they host the Marlins. <\/p>\n
Doing so would run some risk for the Mets, who would not want to see Holmes get hammered or injured, but teams across the league would love a last glimpse at one of the expected prizes of the trade deadline, if he has not been moved by then.<\/p>\n
Clay Holmes could be a potential trade piece for the Mets who will be sellers as the MLB trade deadline approaches. Corey Sipkin for New York Post<\/p>\n
Holmes has been one of the best moves of the David Stearns era, a reliever signed ahead of the 2025 season and converted into a starter who was promising last year (3.53 ERA in 33 games) and better this season (2.39 ERA in nine starts) before a Spencer Jones comebacker fractured his fibula in May.<\/p>\n
It is possible the Mets extend Holmes by the deadline \u2014 not likely, with Holmes saying last week he didn\u2019t think \u201cthere was a ton\u201d of extension talk between the two sides \u2014 and it is also at least possible the Mets hold on to Holmes, which likely would lead to the club extending a qualifying offer after he expectedly opts out of his current deal.<\/p>\n
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But the most likely scenario is the Mets will trade Holmes, who looked like himself Tuesday: Of the six outs he recorded through balls being put in play, all were ground outs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Clay Holmes showcase appeared to go according to plan. The recovering Mets right-hander, who is likely to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1712,101,4,3449,1690,61,2548,4203,185],"class_list":["post-764281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-clay-holmes","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117001602245162895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764281","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=764281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}