Mets Notebook: Clay Holmes hitting stride as a starter, Mark Vientos back at DH

Mets Notebook: Clay Holmes hitting stride as a starter, Mark Vientos back at DH

BOSTON — When Clay Holmes signed on to be a starting pitcher again with the Mets, he was already prepared for the challenge. Staring wasn’t exactly new for him, but things have changed since he had last toed the rubber as starter for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Holmes already had an idea of how he wanted to structure his workload and what his days in between starts would look like. When he started talking to the team trainers and pitching coaches, h…