In British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist Sherlock Holmes once said: “When you have ruled out the impossible, what remains, however improbable, is It must be the truth.” If this year’s Yankees bullpen can stand still following the main force has collapsed is an unsolved case, then this surprising positive solution is Clay Holmes
After a series of injuries this season damaged the bullpen of Aroldis Chapman, Zack Britton, Jonathan Loaisiga and Chad Green, the formerly proud bullpen of the New York Yankees instantly became a thorny mystery. Fortunately, with the likes of Michael King and Clay Holmes coming forward, the Bullpen of the Stripes is still doing well. However, compared to King, who has been praised by ball critics and scouts in recent years, Holmes’ sudden emergence seems unbelievable.
When he learned last July that he was being traded to the Yankees, Holmes was waiting to check out in a Pittsburgh supermarket. At this time, he had just returned from the West Coast away game, and he knew very well that he would be sold by the rebuilding team at any time. So when he saw the call from general manager Ben Cherrington, he picked it up without hesitation. It didn’t take long before Holmes turned flamboyantly and went back to the store to buy his next New York necessities: a razor.
At last year’s trade deadline, the Yankees brought in Anthony Rizzo and Joey Gallo, two impressive left-handed reinforcements. In contrast, Holmes is just an obscure bullpen pitcher with a poor performance. Taken for granted, he was significantly dimmer compared to the spotlight the two batters received.
However, when the Yankees exchanged Holmes, it was actually because of his stubborn stretch ball. Shawn Hill and Brandon Duckworth, two scouts who were once major league pitchers, believed that Holmes might contribute a lot to the team. Fight for the top. After the “reformed” Holmes joined the Yankees, pitching coach Matt Blake also encouraged him to trust the weapon more, and changed the original strategy of pitching to the corners to desperately tucked into the centerline of the strike zone.
Holmes’s sinker has averaged 96.8 mph this year, and can go as high as 100.3 mph. As for the magnitude of longitudinal displacement, it is as much as 23.4 inches. Whether it is ball speed or the tail force of the downward fall, it is above the top mark in the league. Combined with the application of the above strategies, Holmes’s stretch ball has an amazing tail in the strike zone, which reduces the quality of the hitter’s hitting and increases the air-swing rate.
These effects have given Holmes the fifth-best run value in the major leagues at -13 on Statcast’s run value rankings. And his current 81.8% grounding percentage is also the highest since the data website Fangraphs started counting batting data in 2002, better than Britton in his heyday. Holmes even went on to score 29 straight games this season, breaking the record of 28 set by the greatest Patronus of all time, Mariano Rivera.All kinds of data and records tell us that this year’s Holmes has transformed into an invincible earth-rolling machine
As the detective Sherlock Holmes said in the novel, “The most obvious truth is more confusing than anything.” Although the batter knows that Clay Holmes will miss the sinker 80%, he also knows how the sinker will be routed. Go, but still can’t crack it, and continue to be played around by him. However, as the day of Chapman’s return to the team draws closer, how the Yankees will arrange the bullpen task will surely make New York fans and the media talk a lot. However, even if Chapman returns to the team, Holmes’ solid and strong performance will at least keep him in the finisher position and share Chapman’s last line of defense for the Yankees.
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