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Braves Select Grant Holmes

By Nick Deeds | June 16, 2024 at 9:05am CDT

The Braves announced this morning that they’ve selected the contract of right-hander Grant Holmes. Left-hander Ray Kerr was optioned to Triple-A in order to make room for Holmes on the active roster, while Holmes will take the 40-man roster spot of right-hander Huascar Ynoa, who was recalled from the minors and placed on the 60-day injured list with a stress reaction in his right elbow.

Holmes, 28, was a first-round pick by the Dodgers back in 2014 and quickly rose to be a consensus top-100 prospect in the sport. Holmes was swapped alongside Frankie Montas and Jharel Cotton from L.A. to Oakland in the trade that sent Josh Reddick to the Dodgers just before the 2016 trade deadline, and at the time Holmes appeared to be the headliner of the return headed to the A’s. Unfortunately, shoulder problems and ineffectiveness at the upper levels of the minors prevented Holmes from impacting the A’s during his time with the organization, and he was outrighted off the club’s 40-man roster in early 2022.

The right-hander joined the Braves on a minor league deal for the 2023 season and generally pitched well in a relief role with the club’s Triple-A affiliate in Gwinnett. In 61 innings of work, Holmes posted a 3.54 ERA with a 28.7% strikeout rate. That was enough for the Braves to re-sign him to a fresh minor league deal ahead of the 2024 season, and he’s once again found success with the club at the Triple-A level, this time in a swing role: in 18 appearances (3 starts) spanning 41 innings, Holmes has dominated to the tune of a 2.63 ERA with an excellent 30.4% strikeout rate in that time. That was clearly enough for the Braves to decide to give Holmes a shot at the big league level, and he’s now poised to make his MLB debut after a decade working his way through the minor leagues.

Headed down to Triple-A in place of Holmes is Kerr, who Atlanta acquired from the Padres alongside Matt Carpenter in a deal over the offseason. The southpaw’s time with the Braves hasn’t gone as the club was surely hoping when they took on Carpenter’s contract to acquire him. In 22 1/3 innings of multi-inning relief work, Kerr has struggled to a 5.64 ERA and 4.40 FIP across ten appearances in the majors. The lefty has appeared to be more effective in shorter bursts, as he has allowed just two runs on nine hits and three walks while striking out eight across nine innings of work when throwing 40 pitches or less in an outing. For now, Kerr figures to head back to Triple-A and wait for his next opportunity to impact the big league bullpen in Atlanta.

As for Ynoa, the talented right-hander flashed exciting upside during the 2021 season with the Braves, when he pitched to a 4.05 ERA in 91 innings of work and struck out 26.9% of batters faced. Unfortunately, the right-hander has pitched just 6 2/3 innings of work in the majors since then and last appeared at the highest level in 2022 due to a number of injuries, including Tommy John surgery. Now it appears Ynoa is headed back to the shelf for what figures to be another extended absence, as the stress reaction in his right elbow will sideline him for at least the next two months.

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Atlanta Braves Transactions Grant Holmes Huascar Ynoa Ray Kerr

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  1. Randy Choade

    1 year ago

    (through the wall: “Hey, Peter man, turn it on channel 9! Breast exam!”

    I was thinking he matches the name Grant Holmes perfectly. Put him in costume on the Tombstone set and it’s cinema magic!

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  2. TheJoker

    1 year ago

    Kerr was all over the place in Saturday’s game. Free ticket to Gwinnett.

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    • rundmc1981

      1 year ago

      Per usual. He’s the Schwarber of RPs: K, BB or HR.

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    • holecamels35

      1 year ago

      Isn’t this the guy they traded an arm and a leg for? His k/bb ratio is solid so far but he’s looking pretty inconsistent. They went out of the box to get him and Bummer on weird looking trades that didn’t really pay off so far.

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      • RunDMC

        1 year ago

        Yeppers, but the goal was to get rid of guys on the roster that were either going to be released (Soroka) or DFA’d, so they wanted to get bare minimum for them, even if it meant taking on some salary for controllable wild-cards, like Kerr (thru 2030)/Bummer (thru ’26 w/ team options). Bummer has looked decent so far, cutting down on BB, while still maintaining 10 SO/9, but he’s been more hittable. Kerr hasn’t been good, but there’s a lot more time with him. Love the velocity, but not control. He’s older (29 y/o) than most and I think they with his control they think they can get his prime years of him for a reduced RP rate, big IF, he can start to figure things out. It hasn’t helped that between AAA and ML rosters he’s had to go from long RP to starter/opener (twice in ML, already), to bad results. Hopefully, they can let him find his place and, perhaps, not rely on him starting, but that’s me.

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        • CBeisbol

          1 year ago

          Run

          “they wanted to get bare minimum for them”

          Uh, no

          They wanted to get the maximum for them. The maximum just wasn’t much

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        • SoCalBrave

          1 year ago

          I think Kerr didn’t get a fair chance. He was great as a reliever, but then they decided to use him as starter and stretched him in the majors.

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      • YaySports

        1 year ago

        They bought Kerr for taking on 4 million of Carpenters contracts.

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  3. whosehighpitch

    1 year ago

    He looks like Kenny Powers

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    • thunderlips

      1 year ago

      Came here to say the same thing lol

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    • b00giem@n

      1 year ago

      LOL! First thought I had.

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  4. braves95 2

    1 year ago

    Okay I’ve never heard of this guy but he’s immediately my new favorite player

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    • baseballandbrews

      1 year ago

      Excited to see him getting a chance. When he left in the Rich Hill trade, was bummed to see him go and even sadder when he flamed out in Oakland.

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    • RandalGrichuksStubble

      1 year ago

      I’m a Blue Jays fan and feel the same way. I want this man winning the Cy Young. Every year.

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  5. Mynameisnoname

    1 year ago

    With spider tac a distant memory, the Braves are calling up Holmes for the grease.

    In a league of copycats, be sure to look out for Motley Crew cover bands moonlighting as depth relievers.

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    • Tigers3232

      1 year ago

      Motley Crue?? This dude is pure LA Guns, the epitome of cxck rock. Yet I imagine he only performs Skynyrd and David Allan Coe.

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  6. Nevrfolow

    1 year ago

    I remember when he got drafted, im surprised that’s the same dude.

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    • ElysianPark

      1 year ago

      Same here!

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  7. Dotnet22

    1 year ago

    Is his nickname Giraffe? Dudes got quite the neck.

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  8. lesterdnightfly

    1 year ago

    Got Holmes? Check.
    Now get Bob Watson.

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  9. ahale224

    1 year ago

    I need to see him without the hat to see if that’s a Kentucky waterfall he’s rocking.

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    • Tigers3232

      1 year ago

      It appears to be. And if so it’s glorious, if I had thw bxlls to grow a mullet, that would be what I’d be aspiring for.

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  10. highflyballintorightfield

    1 year ago

    He’s only making it to the majors now? Reddick got a lot of hate in LA but at least the Dodgers didn’t end up giving up much.

    Are there any recently traded Dodgers pitching prospects who have reached or exceeded expectations? Kremer, maybe? Dodgers seem have a good handle on who to keep and who to trade.

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    • ElysianPark

      1 year ago

      Reddick was a jerk and still sounds like one.

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  11. getrealgone2

    1 year ago

    He’s from Conway, SC and looks every bit of it.

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  12. leftcoaster

    1 year ago

    A former Dodgers first rounder.

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  13. rememberthecoop

    1 year ago

    What a neck on that guy! Put him together with Walt ‘No Neck’ Williams & you’d have one regular sized neck.

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  14. HBan22

    1 year ago

    I thought this guy was going to be really good when he was a prospect. Really cool to see him still hanging in there and trying to carve out an MLB career.

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  15. GB2

    1 year ago

    More like Grant Holmesless

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  16. Citizen1

    1 year ago

    Ynoa must have hit a wall again.
    Holmes pitched 3 scoreless with no runs given up. At least the Braves offense is back.

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  17. Tigers3232

    1 year ago

    This dude has an absolutely amazing mullet. Anyone who aspires to have a great mullet should emulate this man.

    Watching him pitch I want to start pounding Miller High Life and fire up a Marlboro Red.

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