The Mets are the on the road again today to another AL East team! Today they’ll face off of the Blue Jays and the Mets look to pick up where they left off yesterday hitting four home runs on their way to their first spring training win of the season. Yesterday’s game against the Yankees when exactly how you would expect on paper with homeruns from power-hitter household names like Jared Young, Luis Torrens, Hayden Senger and J.T. Schwartz. Jared Young and Hayden Senger are getting rewarded with starts today!
We’ll get our first spring looks at Clay Holmes and Tobias Myers today. Holmes is coming off his first year as a starting pitcher and is the first member of the Mets rotation to pitch in a spring training game this season. Myers came over the to the Mets with Freddy Peralta and was featured as a swingman last season. They’ll be facing a lineup of regular, starting players from the Blue Jays!
Three Things To Watch For:
- Clay Holmes. The Clay Holmes starting pitcher experiment was a success last season with Holmes pitching 33 games including 31 starts totaling 165 2/3 innings. Like many pitchers on the Mets roster, Holmes struggled sometimes to go deep into games, but that made more sense for Holmes as he was adjusting to a new work load. From 2021 through 2024, Holmes topped out at 70 innings per season, so this was a new frontier for him. Holmes had a 3.53 ERA, 4.11 FIP, 1.304 WHIP and a 114 ERA+. He was more effective in the first half of the season (19 starts, 103 1/3 innings, 3.31 ERA, 1.258 WHIP) than int he second half (14 games, 12 starts, 62 1/3 innings, 3.90 ERA, 1.380 WHIP).
- Tobias Myers. Myers pitched in 27 games and made 25 starts in his 2024 rookie season totaling 138 innings with a 3.00 ERA, 3.91 FIP, 1.174 WHIP and a 138 ERA+. Last season he started the season off on the injured list due to an oblique strain. When he returned, he pitched in 22 games including six starts with a 3.55 ERA, 3.92 FIP, 1.362 WHIP and a 117 ERA+. Last year the Mets experimented with throwing two starters together to make a full game, Tobias Myers gives the Mets the flexibility to do that again.
- Vidal Bruján. Bruján is on the 40-man roster competing for a spot on the active roster to be the Mets back-up, utility infielder. The Mets are looking for a player who can play short as Lindor recovers from his surgery. The Mets are going to want to keep Polanco and Bichette at the positions they are learning, so shortstop will probably fall to Ronny Mauricio or Bruján (or several different players on NRI’ deals trying land a spot on the 40-man). Last season Bruján played for the Cubs, Orioles and Braves totaling 60 games slashing .253/.305/.310 with a 77 OPS+.
Let’s Go Mets!
