NY Mets depth chart: 2 players moving up, 2 moving down before the trade deadline

Clay Holmes has confirmed he isn’t at the top of their rotation

While Peterson has moved up the depth chart, Clay Holmes has fallen down. He’s doing the exact opposite of Peterson. He isn’t giving the Mets length. In 5 starts versus Peterson’s 4 in July, they have the same exact number of innings pitched.

Holmes hasn’t been a big strikeout pitcher of late either. Just 13 in his 25.2 frames in July, he always seems to have that one inning (usually the fifth) where things begin to come apart with a few hits and walks. His 4.91 ERA this month is a bad trend. It wasn’t long ago he was hovering around the 3.00 mark for the year. He’s at a still accepting 3.40 on the is but it has come with short outings which tends to affect the next day’s starter because of the arms needed out of the bullpen.

It was experimental to turn Holmes into a starter after several years of being a successful reliever. Reviews should remain favorable although there seems to be a clear ceiling.

Peterson has made a case to be the staff’s number one starter in the postseason. Holmes is clearly not an option outside of some plan to get as many innings out of him as possible and work him more as an opener. It’s semantics. What’s more understandable and agreed upon by all fans is that he has slid down the rotation rankings.