{"id":311545,"date":"2025-11-28T03:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311545\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T03:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:22:22","slug":"yankees-devin-williams-predicted-to-take-deal-with-cubs-in-mlb-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311545\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Devin Williams predicted to take deal with Cubs in MLB free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be an expectation around Major League Baseball that Devin Williams could leave the New York Yankees<\/a>. Reports have indicated that the Yankees have some level of interest in Williams, but after a down 2025 campaign, and with David Bednar expected to be the closer moving forward, Williams might not be willing to take a shorter deal to stay with the Yankees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He understands that his value will be much higher as a closer elsewhere, and other teams should be able to offer that.<\/p>\n

One team that can is the Chicago Cubs<\/a>, and with the bullpen issues the Cubs faced a campaign ago, he’d make a bit too much sense even beyond what it seems on paper.<\/p>\n

Will Laws of Sports Illustrated believes that’s the case as well, predicting him to land a deal with Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Yankees traded for Williams with the expectation he\u2019d be the team\u2019s shut-down closer. Instead, the two-time All-Star got off to a calamitous start to the year that left him with a 5.01 ERA and out of ninth-inning duties by the end of July. But the underlying numbers show that Williams hasn\u2019t lost any of his elite-level stuff. There\u2019s risk here, of course (we\u2019re talking about relief pitchers, after all), but if Williams can successfully hit the reset button after the most tumultuous season of his otherwise very successful career, he\u2019ll end up being a steal,\u201d he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Williams didn’t have the season he was looking for in terms of basic numbers, he still had an above-average FIP, posting a 2.68. When he had a 1.53 ERA in 2023, he had a 2.66 FIP.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Compared to barely being higher in 2025 and a 4.79 ERA, it shows that he was rather unlucky on the mound.<\/p>\n

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