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NEW YORK — The thin silver lining for Clay Holmes is that he most likely won’t need surgery after fracturing his right fibula, but the right-hander is not completely ruling out the possibility.
“I don’t think anything is off the table really right now,” Holmes mentioned before Sunday’s Subway Series finale against the New York Yankees. “I think we’re still gathering opinions and whatnot. It doesn’t look that way, but I think at this moment the training staff is still trying to gather as much as they can and see what’s there. But, like I mentioned it doesn’t seem to be the case, but there’s still some opinions being gathered on that.”
Holmes mentioned a surgery would be to install reinforcement in the leg. It ultimately depends on how the bone heals, as it typically takes four to six weeks but could vary. Mets manager Carlos Mendoza mentioned Holmes will not be cleared to begin a throwing progression until he is pain free and undergoes more imaging to ensure the bone is healed.
Holmes will need a spring training-like buildup before returning.
“I know there’s times where you put guys on one knee on a chair to kind of get the arm going,” Mendoza mentioned. “I don’t think that’s going to be the case here.”
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Holmes’ setback lengthened the last-place Mets’ already long injury list, which includes shortstop Francisco Lindor (calf), first baseman Jorge Polanco (Achilles/wrist), center fielder Luis Robert Jr. (back), catcher Francisco Alvarez (knee), infielder/outfielder Jared Young (knee), right-handed starter Kodai Senga (back), and left-handed reliever A.J. Minter (lat/hip).
Mendoza mentioned the club will decide on Holmes’ rotation replacement after Sunday’s game. The options include moving Tobias Myers or Sean Manaea from the bullpen or calling up a starter. The team is also weighing whether to have Nolan McLean start Monday on regular rest or Tuesday against the Washington Nationals; Holmes’ replacement would start the other game.
“There’s a lot going on,” Mendoza mentioned.
Holmes suffered the fracture Friday when the Yankees’ Spencer Jones’ 111.1-mph comebacker ricocheted off his leg to begin the fourth inning. He immediately harkened back to spring training in 2020 when, a week before the COVID shutdown, Nelson Cruz lined a ball to nearly the same spot to fracture the same fibula.
He recalled the leg immediately giving way. This time was different. He could still apply pressure on the leg. He thought he could still pitch and, after a visit from a team trainer, he continued. Holmes worked around a bases-loaded jam, getting Aaron Judge to fly out to end the inning. It wasn’t until he tried jogging out to the mound for the fifth inning that he realized the injury was significant.
“It continued to get worse the more I threw,” Holmes mentioned. “I felt confident I could get through the inning when I was coming off for the fourth or I wouldn’t have went back out there. But it just continued to get a little worse and worse.”
Holmes began the fifth by striking out Cody Bellinger before walking Jazz Chisholm Jr. to end his outing after 4 1/3 innings. He faced seven batters after absorbing Jones’ comebacker. It was the shortest outing of his standout season, having entered Friday’s game with a 1.86 ERA while pitching into the seventh inning in three of his eight starts.
He knew it would probably be his last start for a significant period of time.
“I was kinda expecting it,” Holmes mentioned of the diagnosis. “I wasn’t too surprised by the X-rays. It caught me good. I had some hope there for a little bit, but the more I was continuing to throw on it, it was kinda continuing to get a little worse. Like I mentioned, I had some history with it, and I kinda knew that it was probably not great.”
When he takes the mound next is unclear. So is Holmes’ future with the team. If the Mets, already eight games out of the third wild card spot entering Sunday, are not within striking distance of a postseason bid, they could decide to move veterans before the Aug. 3 trade deadline. Freddy Peralta, a free agent after the season, and Holmes, who is in the second year of a three-year, $38 million contract but has a $12 million player option that he will almost certainly decline, are the Mets’ best trade chips.
For now, they’ll try to gain ground in the standings and avoid that scenario without their best starter this season.
“I think just being on the sideline, it’ll be tough to watch just because everyone in here wants to contribute, wants to be part of it,” Holmes mentioned. “Myself included.”
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