When the Yankees assembled their “super-bullpen” for 2019, Jonathan Holder provided a nice safety valve, but served as kind of an afterthought. Despite his solid 2018 season, there ranked at least five pitchers ahead of him on the totem pole, but Holder would surely be counted on for some middle relief innings.
That said, I’m not sure anyone would have predicted that Holder would have logged the most innings of any Yankees reliever so far, and accumulated the second-highest leverage index, behind only the closer, Aroldis Chapman. The Yankees are using Holder a lot, and at several key moments.