It's been long enough since it broke that I would have expected to see a second source. I guess it could be a situation where there's a follow up test pending and no one credible will go on record until that comes back?
Maybe they've 100% decided he's going to the pen when Strider comes back/AJ will stay #5? If they want Holmes to start all year, he threw about 110 IP last year, which unless I'm missing something was his first season over 100 IP since 2017, so...
Teams with weak pens will do that in the playoffs, when they're trying to win at nearly any cost. Down 3 in the 8th in game 1/162, when Holmes probably has never gone close to 180 IP in a season to begin with?
He's only had two good seasons. I don't know that it was all that great of an idea for AA to reportedly tie up 80 million in a reliever with his relatively brief track record, mostly in low impact games on bad teams, regardless of how dominant he was last year... especially since we have...
It was incredibly annoying watching Morton pitch at times, but taking the liner off the shin and pitching on a broken leg was probably the hardest thing any Brave has ever done in the jersey. Cheers.