This will be a quick article that I’ll try and put together every few days during spring training to share some of the tidbits I found most interesting. It’s important that we don’t overreact to small sample sizes,

Across Clay Holmes’ first two spring training stars with the New York Mets, he’s looked dazzling. In his first appearance, he recorded three perfect innings. He followed up his stellar Mets debut with another three scoreless innings earlier today.

Clay Holmes' spring training debut with the New York Mets in front of the second-largest crowd in a spring home opener at Clover Park could not have gone better

Brett Baty hit his second home run of spring training Thursday, a two-run homer off right-hander Miguel Ullola. It was a line drive over the right field fence that went nearly 110 MPH off the bat, which was encouraging to the Mets.

With three weeks of spring training in the books, here are five things we've learned about the Mets ahead of the 2025 season.

As a closer, he rarely came back out after innings in which he threw a lot of pitches. As a starter, that will be required.

The Mets right-hander, who is lengthening as a starter after spending most of his career in the bullpen, is scheduled for three ups (meaning at least pitching into the third inning) on Saturday against the Astros at Clover Park, according to manager Carlos Mendoza. Holmes said he would likely be capped around 50 pitches.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — For Clay Holmes, this spring training is all about change — and a changeup. He changed from Yankees to Mets. He is changing from reliever to starter. And he has added a changeup to an expanding repertoire in the expanded role.

Holmes' cutter could unlock a new level of production, plus notes on Ryan Clifford and Vientos working on his defensive range.

With the relatively long term injuries that New York Mets starting pitchers Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas have already suffered to this point in spring trainin