Clay Holmes with the Mets:
42 G
218.1 IP
3.26 ERA
174 SO
With an opt-out after the 2026 season, there’s always a world where the Mets COULD bring him back, which would be awesome for the rotation.
Thanks for everything Clay 🧡💙
Get to know Mets new prospect Aidan Smith:
- Has struggled since a dominant 2024 campaign, where he batted .288 in 97 games, holding a .209 BA through 59 games this season.
- Known for excellent defense and baserunning, needs to pick it up with his bat
There is a "significantly greater likelihood" of the Mets trading Clay Holmes prior to the deadline rather than signing him to an extension, per @Ken_Rosenthal and @WillSammon of The Athletic
Being embraced by the @Mets and New York City meant everything to David Wright. After being diagnosed with spinal stenosis, he officially retired from baseball, but not before one last goodbye: “September 29, 2018.
I’ll never forget that day as long as I live.
The last time I had the immense honor of putting on that number 5 New York Mets jersey and taking the field for the best fans in all of baseball.
And, I gotta say, I’m not an overly emotional person. As my wife will attest, you’ll almost never see me cry. But that day?
Wow.
That whole experience threw me for a loop, and the tears….
They just kept flowing.
It was like I couldn’t shut off the faucet.
And it’s weird because you want to enjoy the moment as much as possible, but, at the same time, you know it’s the end.
Like … this is it.
So as happy as I was to be able to, I guess — and I’ll put quotation marks around this — ‘make it back,’ I knew getting back on the field in Queens that night also meant the end of my run.
There was no coming back.
As an athlete, you always want to go out on your own terms. You want to write your final chapter. Not many people get the opportunity to do that, though — and I guess you could say that I didn’t get the chance to do that either. But I did get that one final night to express how I felt about the city, and our fans, and about the organization.
I couldn’t be more thankful for that opportunity....
Now, sure, selfishly … yeah, I wish with all my heart that I could’ve made it back and played a few more years and been able to show the fans the David Wright they remembered. I would’ve loved to have made that happen.
But I gave it everything I had. I really, really did.
It just wasn’t in the cards for me.” https://t.co/JQcMOVVJjs
BLOCKBUSTER: The Boston Celtics have agreed to trade Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.
I don’t agree with everything he said but props to Steve Cohen for going on the NY Post podcast.
Really good interview. Cohen just gets it, still the best owner in baseball despite how this year has gone.
WNBA had a great thing going. Caitlin Clark was making the WNBA compelling (and making everyone in it money). Rival players and refs and league execs ruined it.