C-Mac: Clay Holmes 'vitriol' is getting 'ridiculous'

After Clay Holmes blew another save on Tuesday night, cries from the Yankee fanbase grew louder to remove the righty from the closer role, as it is now five blown saves in his last seven tries.

Still, C-Mac is standing by Holmes, and says if you watch closely, Holmes isn’t getting knocked around at all, and has been either a victim of bad defense or fortunate rolls.

“He wasn’t good in this game…but I’m sorry, you know how I feel.
The amount of vitriol and the amount of people telling me Clay Holmes can’t be a closer, I find it ridiculous,” C-Mac said. “If you watched his performance last night, he doesn’t give up any hard contact whatsoever…the defense behind him isn’t any damn good. That is the biggest problem. That doesn’t change if you move him to the seventh or eighth inning.”

Holmes and his power sinker induce plenty of ground balls, which could lead to streaks of bad luck when they continue to find holes. Of course, his wild pitch on Tuesday that led to the tying run was his own doing, but C-Mac believes Holmes is still a solid closer that can be trusted.

“I don’t think this is a ninth inning thing. I don’t think the moment is too big for him,” C-Mac said. “He comes out there and has great stuff, has bad at-bat after bad at-bat...little, light ground balls, barely making contact for a little ground ball that gets the inning started.”