didn\u2019t want to just \u201cfind some way out\u201d of Queens<\/a> amid the mess.<\/p>\nRather, he wanted \u201cto be part of the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old holds a 2.39 ERA across nine starts in the big leagues in 2026, and he has made three minor-league rehab starts in his return from a broken fibula suffered in May.<\/p>\n
His next big league start should soon follow, and he was seen on the market as a big asset to any contending team.<\/p>\n
Clay Holmes (35) pitches in the first inning when the Mets played the Twins on April 22. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
It will be Holmes\u2019 first time not playing for a New York City team since 2021, when he joined the Yankees for four years in The Bronx.<\/p>\n
Holmes was drafted by the Pirates in the ninth round of the 2011 MLB June Amateur Draft and made his big league debut in April 2018 at 25 years old.<\/p>\n
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He went on to spend four years in Pittsburgh before earning his first All-Star nod in 2022 with the Yankees as a reliever.<\/p>\n
The Mets re-converted Holmes to a starting pitcher and he went 16-12 with a 3.26 ERA across 42 outings (40 starts) dating to the start of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Tyrone Taylor connects on a home run during the Mets\u2019 Aug. 1 loss to the Marlins. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
Holmes holds a $12 million player option for the 2027 season, meaning it\u2019s possible he could re-sign with the Mets as a free agent should he opt to become a free agent.<\/p>\n
Taylor, in a resurgent season, has a .794 OPS with 10 home runs as one of the Mets\u2019 most productive hitters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clay Holmes\u2019 return will come with a contender. And Tyrone Taylor will be joining him. The Mets traded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31643,20,94970,9,11,320,10,319],"class_list":["post-313205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-clay-holmes","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}