{"id":58104,"date":"2025-12-02T04:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58104\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:11:17","slug":"mets-swoop-in-to-sign-ex-yankees-reliever-devin-williams-after-bombshell-trade-backfired-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58104\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets swoop in to sign ex-Yankees reliever Devin Williams after bombshell trade backfired in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"

By ALEX RASKIN, US SPORTS NEWS EDITOR<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 22:27 EST, 1 December 2025 | Updated: 22:59 EST, 1 December 2025 <\/p>\n

The New York Mets<\/a> are hoping to succeed where the crosstown Yankees failed in 2025.<\/p>\n

As first reported by The Athletic’s Will Sammon<\/a>, the Mets and former Yankees reliever Devin Williams have agreed to a three-year, $45 million deal with a potential $6 million in bonuses. The deal has $15 million in deferred payments, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n

Williams was a major off-season acquisition for the Yankees, who got the two-time All-Star and former National League Rookie of the Year from the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> in exchange for starting pitcher Nestor Cortes.<\/p>\n

But unlike Williams’ dazzling performance in Milwaukee, where he posted an impressive 1.83 earned-run average over his first six Major League seasons, the St. Louis native struggled mightily in 2025.<\/p>\n

Not only did Williams lose the closer’s role in the Bronx, but his 4.79 earned-run average was easily the worst of his career.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, Williams did post his lowest walk percentage since 2020 and actually struck out a respectable 34.7 percent of the batters he faced last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Williams lost the closer’s role in the Bronx after being acquired by from Milwaukee<\/p>\n

Williams was one of the most electric pitchers in the National League, where he frustrated hitters with a circle changeup that behaved more like the long-forgotten screwball.<\/p>\n

Along the way Williams was twice named the NL Reliever of the Year.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear how Williams’ arrival at Citi Field will impact closer, Edwin Diaz, whose future in Queens remains up in the air. He previously stated there is a 50-50 chance he returns to the Mets after opting out of his contract.<\/p>\n

Diaz is coming off a strong 2025, in which he posted an impressive 1.63 ERA.<\/p>\n

Williams may have become expendable in the Bronx after the Yankees acquired hard-throwing Camilo Doval in a deadline deal with the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

The Williams agreement marks the second time in as many years the Mets brought in a major star who’d been acquired by the Yankees in a trade less than a year earlier. Last offseason it was slugger Juan Soto who defected from the Bronx to Queens for a 15-year deal worth $765 million.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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