NY Mets Monday Morning GM: 3 roster plans wearing thin after 100 games

Sunday’s game between the New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds marked 100 for the team from Queens. An easily overlooked milestone, it means the final 62 games are going to drive by so fast you’d swear Vin Diesel was at the wheel. Does he actually drive in any of those movies or just stand around a chop shop talking about family?

The Mets went into the year with extremely high hopes, many of which they’ve lived up to. Despite hitting some speed bumps recently, they remain very much alive in the NL East race alongside the Philadelphia Phillies. But as with anything over time, certain parts of this year’s Mets team have begun to wear thin.

Whether you agreed with it or not to begin the year, these three roster plans are beginning to wear thin 100 games into the 2025 season.

1) Clay Holmes the starting pitcher

Clay Holmes is still having a “good year” but he’s also not trending in the right direction. Tiring a little too early, too often each time out, keeping him in the rotation or not is a decision for David Stearns to heavily consider in the coming days.

From the start of the year, some have wondered if moving Holmes to the bullpen was the eventual outcome. Those who didn’t believe in him thought it would be due to performance. Such a change now would be more about getting the most out of him and having a more complete roster. After all, the Mets could use a late-inning high-leverage arm in their bullpen. Shifting him there and adding a starting pitcher isn’t so outrageous.

Holmes hasn’t been as sharp as he was early on nor has he been able to give the Mets as many innings. Even with fading strikeout totals, he’s running his pitch counts up early on. His 92 pitches in 5.1 innings on Saturday with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts is preposterous.

Not all that good, but also not all that bad, it’s too early to come to any immediate conclusions with Holmes. He’s wearing thin with maybe one start left for the Mets to make a decision.