{"id":321898,"date":"2025-12-02T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321898\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:26:08","slug":"sources-devin-williams-new-york-mets-agree-on-3-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321898\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Devin Williams, New York Mets agree on 3-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free-agent relief pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33224\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Williams<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> are in agreement on a three-year contract that guarantees more than $50 million, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan on Monday night, confirming a report.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 31, hit free agency after a rough debut season for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a>. Acquired last December from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> for pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36480\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nestor Cortes<\/a> and National League Rookie of the Year finalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5007615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Durbin<\/a>, Williams struggled to a career-worst 4.79 ERA over 67 appearances for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46994593\/2025-26-mlb-offseason-grades-free-agency-trade-analysis\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1582425_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He saved 18 games in 22 chances for the Yankees but, after entering the season as the designated closer, he shared the role for most of the season after getting off to a rough start. Williams recorded four scoreless outings during the Yankees&#8217; postseason run, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/38303\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Bednar<\/a> earned both of New York&#8217;s playoff saves.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the Yankees, Williams established himself as a premier back-of-the-bullpen pitcher during his six seasons with Milwaukee, first as a set-up reliever for star closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32760\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hader<\/a> and then as Hader&#8217;s replacement in the role.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Bradford Doolittle contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free-agent relief pitcher Devin Williams and the New York Mets are in agreement on a three-year contract that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-321898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}