The [URL='https://sny.tv/tags/mets']Mets[/URL] are in agreement with former Yankees reliever [URL='https://sny.tv/tags/clay-holmes'][B]Clay Holmes[/B][/URL] on a three-year contract worth $38 million pending a physical, SNY's Andy Martino confirmed, as their offseason spending continues. The deal has an opt-out after the second year.

Holmes finished the 2024 season with a solid 3.14 ERA (1.30 WHIP) in 63 innings and had a career-high 30 saves, but he also blew 13 save opportunities and lost his closer's role late in the season.

The 31-year-old doesn't figure to be the closer during his time in Queens with that crown still belonging to [B]Edwin Diaz[/B]. In fact, the Mets don't intend on using Holmes as a reliever at all, instead planning on converting him to a starting pitcher, per Passan.

In seven seasons -- all as a reliever (except for his first season in 2018 with the Pittsburgh Pirates when he made four starts) -- the right-hander is 24-22 with a 3.71 ERA (1.30 WHIP). Since getting traded to the Yanks during the 2021 season, Holmes was converted to a closer and really took off, pitching to a 2.69 ERA (1.11 WHIP) across 217.2 innings.

Regardless, he will now likely join [B]Kodai Senga[/B], [B]David Peterson[/B] and recently signed [B]Frankie Montas [/B]in the starting rotation for 2025.