Clay Holmes isn’t out to prove anything to former teams with Mets starting success

Clay Holmes didn’t even check. He has enough going on with his transition from the bullpen to the rotation, so he tried to “narrow my focus” and avoid the temptation of looking ahead to match up potential starts with potential opponents — including this weekend’s Subway Series in The Bronx.

He never approached manager Carlos Mendoza or pitching coach Jeremy Hefner to see if they’d reconfigure the projected rotation to let him pitch against the Yankees, either. 

“They tell me when to pitch,” Holmes told The Post on Tuesday, “and I pitch.” 

So Holmes will miss the Subway Series by a day, though he knows he’ll likely get to face the Yankees one day. Instead, he’ll settle for facing another former team when he starts the series finale against the Pirates — the organization that developed Holmes as a starter before he shifted to the bullpen in 2018 — on Wednesday in an outing he said will have a “little bit of that full-circle moment.”