Jonathan Holder

Jonathan Holder

31-Year-Old PitcherP
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$Signed a one-year, minor-league contract with the Rangers in January of 2024. Released by the Rangers in March of 2024.
Invited to Rangers camp
PTexas Rangers  
January 10, 2024
Holder signed a minor-league contract with the Rangers on Wednesday that includes an invitation to spring training.
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Holder spent all of the 2023 season at Triple-A Salt Lake in the Angels organization, posting a 5.40 ERA and 76:40 K:BB over 66.2 frames. The 30-year-old last saw action in the majors in 2020 and holds a career 4.38 ERA in 157 appearances at the big-league level.
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Normally, a 3.14 ERA and 1.09 WHIP with 60 punchouts in 66 innings would warrant a high-leverage role, but when you wear pinstripes, it means working in lower-leverage scenarios 72% of the time. Holder still managed to chalk up seven holds. The 25-year-old right-hander throws three plus pitches: a 93-mph fastball, changeup and newly introduced slider. Holder isn't overpowering but manages to miss ample bats with a career 11.4% swinging-strike rate yielding a 21.9 K%, acceptable but not dominating. He has a chance to earn a higher-leverage role in the Yankees' revamped bullpen, but beware, last season he allowed only four homers, quite low for a hurler sporting a low 29.3% groundball rate, especially for one working about half the time in Yankee Stadium. An ERA correction could be in store, though likely not to the 4.63 xFIP recorded last year.
Holder had just one appearance above the High-A level before 2016, but he shot up through the organizational ranks so quickly that he made the Opening Day roster out of the bullpen in 2017. The righty continued to flash the impressive command that helped propel his stock so quickly, maintaining 9.2 K/9 versus just 1.8 BB/9 over 39.1 innings in the big leagues. The 24-year-old was also able to mostly overcome a high BABIP of .361 to post a respectable 3.89 ERA. Despite the solid peripheral numbers, the righty spent most of the second-half of the season in the minors and was left off the club's postseason roster, so a spot in the Opening Day bullpen again is not assured. Still, Holder figures to get a real chance in spring training and could gather the occasional hold if he does stick around in the majors.
Holder shot all the way up through the organizational ranks in 2016, making stops at High-A, Double-A, and Triple-A before earning a September callup. Though he had just one appearance above High-A before this year, he compiled a combined 1.65 ERA with 101 strikeouts against just seven walks in 65.1 innings across the three minor league levels and continued to get better at each progressive stop until reaching the majors. His terrific K:BB obviously demonstrates impressive command, but Holder doesn't have particularly overpowering stuff and was not previously projected as one of the team's most highly-touted prospects, so it's possible there will be some regression next year. Though the righty struggled some in September in the majors, his stellar minor league season and placement on the 40-man roster will likely put him in prime position to win a bullpen spot in spring training.
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Reassigned to minors camp
PLos Angeles Angels  
March 21, 2023
Holder was reassigned to minor-league camp by the Angels on Tuesday.
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Joins Angels on minors deal
PLos Angeles Angels  
November 29, 2022
Holder signed a minor-league contract with the Angels on Tuesday, Sam Blum of The Athletic reports.
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Comes off 60-day IL
PChicago Cubs  
August 9, 2022
Triple-A Iowa reinstated Holder (undisclosed) from the 60-day injured list Thursday.
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Starts up rehab assignment
PChicago Cubs  
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July 31, 2022
Holder (undisclosed) made the first appearance of his rehab assignment for the Cubs' rookie-level Arizona Complex League affiliate Saturday, striking out three while allowing no hits and one walk over two scoreless frames.
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Assigned to minor-league camp
PChicago Cubs  
April 4, 2022
Holder was reassigned to minor-league camp Monday.
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