The New York Mets and Clay Holmes have come to
an agreement on a three year$38 million deal.
Jeff Passan adding that it has an opt out after
the second year. Now, the last time Clay
Holmes was a starting pitcher was way back in 2018
with the Pittsburgh Pirates four starts, 14 runs in
15 innings. Obviously, since then when he moved
to the Yankees, he became one of the best
relievers in major league baseball. Anthony, your reaction
to this move Holmes going to the Mets. Well
, Robert, I'm not sure this was the Yankee
moving to Queens move that people were anticipating this weekend
. Uh, and yet here we are, I
think it's a super interesting one. You're seeing this
trend around baseball now, really starting probably with De
Lugo, a former Met, but also Michael King
last season. You're seeing guys who were really stand
out relievers and teams are saying, huh, this
could work in the rotation. I would say frankly
, Robert, we don't know because we haven't seen
it since 2018. As you said, he did
obviously come up as a starting pitcher. He was
a starter throughout his minor league career, but for
all intents and purposes in the big league for the
last 67 years, he has been a reliever.
So will it work? I, I can't sit
here and tell you it will. All I can
tell you is that he has the tools to do
it. It definitely is an increased challenge. Decided
to be part of this scene and part of a
new organization that I think uh we gonna head to
a good direction. And Ian, for me,
it's been a lot, you know, it's meant
a lot for, for my family. Uh uh
10 days will give me opportunities to be here.
Uh For me, I mean, same pressure that
I have every year, you know, for what
didn't compete. Uh I gonna give my 100%.
I gonna be the best pitcher in person and teammate
that I can be to help everybody to be better
. So for me, I'm excited to see what
we can do. Uh And at the end,
it, it's about playing baseball. I talked to
, to Sal Mana, you know, Manna is
one of, one of my best friends. Um
I talked, I spoke to Severino too and,
and they have nothing but good things to say about
the way they do things in there, you know
, the way all the, the resources they have
to, to kind of like take your game to
the next level. I'm definitely really excited for next
year and and, and see how good they can
, they can definitely help me improve my game.
Uh when the Mets reach out, you know,
I mean, I got to see that's a team
that is hungry to win, you know, they
wanna win, they wanna obviously win the World Series
, you know, and uh the first show this
year and uh that just letting you know that they
coming for everything, former Cy Young award winner,
Shane Bieber gets a one year$14 million contract with
the Cleveland Guardians. There's a player option that can
bring the deal up to$26 million over two years
, assuming he opts out, he hit free agency
at age of 30. Remember, he missed most
all of last season after hurting his elbow. I
think it's a win win. I think it's a
win, win, not only for the player,
but obviously for the team, I think this is
a, uh, match made in heaven. This
is a guy that understands the training staff. He
understands his coaches and he's had success. It's a
two time all star and he's, he's the race
and, and he's a guy that is needed.
The Guardians need Bieber, they need a healthy Bieber
. He'll be back sometime around the middle of the
year. Their training staff is by far one of
the best in all of baseball. I think that's
probably one of the main reasons why he probably wanted
to go back. It's home for him. According
to reports, Tampa Bay Rays will sign Catcher Danny
Jansen to a one year$8.5 million deal. The
Rays have been focused on getting more production behind the
plate. He's very familiar with the division is he
played for the Blue Jays and Red Sox last season
, he knows the system, he knows the game
, he crushes left hand. So you would want
him to call the games. He's a seven year
guy. Go help your young studs that you have
on that mound and then go ahead a little bit
. If SOTO goes somewhere else that Willie Adama would
be very near the top. If not the top
of the list of where the Yankees would pivot and
the thought process there would be Adama at third BP
at George and then they would have Chisholm play second
. A dynamic left side of the input. Certainly
, there's been questions about Volpe at shortstop. I
like him there. And the Yankees do too.
And the idea would be having a Doma at third
for that purpose burns figures to get a very big
deal. The Giants have been in contact with Corbin
Burns certainly be a superb option after losing Snell to
the Dodgers. He's got the kind of personality I
think would appeal to Buster Posey to Bulldog. Something
tells me Buster Posey's kinda, he's going back to
his roots, right? This is a guy who
was a bulldog when he was behind the plate.
If you bring the right attitude, if you change
the perspective of the Giants and what they wanna do
, play hard nose all of a sudden, you
feel like, hey, we've got some momentum here
. I think Buster Posey knows exactly what to do
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