{"id":100613,"date":"2025-05-20T18:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=100613"},"modified":"2025-05-20T21:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:33:36","slug":"pirates-bad-news-holderman-gonzales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/20\/pirates-bad-news-holderman-gonzales\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News for Pirates Regarding Holderman and Gonzales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Tuesday night\u2019s home game against the Cincinnati Reds, the Pittsburgh Pirates placed reliever Colin Holderman<\/a> on the injured list. It\u2019s Holderman\u2019s second trip to the IL already this season. This time, right thumb inflammation lands him on the IL. Pitcher Isaac Mattson<\/a> has been selected from Triple-A Indianapolis to take Holderman\u2019s spot on the active roster. To make room for Mattson on the 40-man roster, Nick Gonzales<\/a> has been transferred from the 10-day to the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n

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We have placed RHP Colin Holderman on the 15-day injured list, and selected the contract of RHP Isaac Mattson from Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

INF Nick Gonzales has been transferred from the 10- to 60-day injured list to make room on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) May 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pirates Place Holderman on IL<\/h3>\n

Holderman has been part of an ineffective bullpen that\u2019s contributed mightily to the Pirates\u2019 woes this season. He\u2019s given up 15 earned runs in 15 innings pitched and has two blown saves, although he\u2019s also been credited with two \u201cholds.\u201d In April, he went on the IL<\/a> with a knee sprain. A frequent target of fans\u2019 vitriol, perhaps his struggles may be due to gamely trying to pitch through injuries.<\/p>\n

Acquired from the New York Mets at the 2022 trade deadline, in 2023, he emerged as a reliable eighth-inning specialist. He was credited with 23 holds in 2023 and 21 more in 2024. Last year, he was at his best, posting a 3.16 ERA, which would have been even better but for an ugly five-game stretch from July 28 to August 7, when he gave up nine earned runs in 4 1\/3 innings. He returned from the IL strong, giving up just two earned runs in 9 1\/3 September innings.<\/p>\n

Gonzales to 60-Day IL<\/h3>\n

In what foreshadowed the disaster that this Pirates season was to become, second baseman Nick Gonzales hit a home run on Opening Day \u2013 and promptly suffered a \u201cnondisplaced fracture of the left ankle\u201d while rounding the bases, landing him on the IL<\/a>. He had just begun a rehab assignment at Indianapolis, during which he went 0-for-6 in two games. There\u2019s no word on what prompted this latest development on his injury status. It\u2019s bad news for an anemic offense that hoped to get a jolt from the return of Gonzales and Spencer Horwitz<\/a>. The former No. 1 draft choice has hit .256\/.300\/.392, 10 HR, and 64 RBI in three major league seasons.<\/p>\n

Up With Mattson<\/h3>\n

Mattson, like Holderman a right-hander, has seven major league appearances under his belt, four with the Baltimore Orioles in 2021 and three with the Pirates last year. These amounted to 9 2\/3 innings where he gave up six earned runs. Of 46 batters faced, he\u2019s walked 10 and hit another. It\u2019s gone better for him in Indianapolis this season. He\u2019s allowed five earned runs in 18 innings pitched. His control problems appear to be behind him. He walked five of his 72 batters faced in Triple-A. Pittsburgh baseball fans might better remember Mattson as a pitcher for Pitt from 2015-17. In three seasons competing in the ACC, he was 4-1 with a 3.47 ERA in 60 games, including one start.<\/p>\n

Image Credit: \u00a9 Jeff Curry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Tuesday night\u2019s home game against the Cincinnati Reds, the Pittsburgh Pirates placed reliever Colin Holderman on the injured list. It\u2019s Holderman\u2019s second trip to the IL already this season. This time, right thumb inflammation lands him on the IL. Pitcher Isaac Mattson has been selected from Triple-A Indianapolis to take Holderman\u2019s spot on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":100627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1071,35],"tags":[5685,3605,28345],"class_list":["post-100613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","category-news","tag-colin-holderman","tag-nick-gonzales","tag-spencer-horwitz"],"modified_by":"Chris Drosehn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100613"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100628,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100613\/revisions\/100628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}