{"id":93029,"date":"2025-12-02T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mets-sign-devin-williams-they-reinforce-bullpen-with-star-reliever-for-3-years\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:42:23","slug":"mets-sign-devin-williams-they-reinforce-bullpen-with-star-reliever-for-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/mets-sign-devin-williams-they-reinforce-bullpen-with-star-reliever-for-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets sign Devin Williams: They reinforce bullpen with star reliever for 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New York Mets Secure Devin Williams to Bolster Bullpen<\/h2>\n\nThe New York Mets have reached an agreement with free agent reliever Devin Williams for three years and $45 million, according to sources close to the negotiation. The team has not yet made the signing official.\n\nWilliams, who pitched the 2025 season with the Yankees, now joins the city&#8217;s rival team.\n\nDespite recording the statistically least outstanding season of his career, with an ERA of 4.79 in 67 appearances, the Mets believe that his actual performance was superior to what traditional statistics indicate.\n\nThe club is interested in keeping Puerto Rican closer Edwin D\u00edaz. If that happens, Williams could take on the setup role.\n\nThe Yankees decided not to offer him a qualifying offer, so the Mets will not have to give up Draft picks or face penalties.\n\n<h2>Detailed Analysis of Williams&#8217; Performance<\/h2>\n\nAlthough its effectiveness was high, advanced statistics suggest that Williams was unlucky. His FIP was 2.68 and his expected ERA was 3.04.\n\nDespite allowing a percentage of strong contacts of 35.7%, the highest of his career, this was not considered worrying.\n\nHis signature &#8220;airbender&#8221; change of speed remains effective, with a rival batting average of .194 and a 37.3% whiff rate in 2025.\n\nWith a four-seam fastball that reaches 95 mph and his dominant changeup, Williams relied primarily on this last pitch last season (52.4% usage).\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Promising Season Finale<\/h2>\n\n\nWilliams finished 2025 on a positive note: nine scoreless appearances, with only two walks and 12 strikeouts in nine innings. In the postseason, he pitched four additional scoreless innings with the Yankees.\n\nThroughout his seven seasons in the Major Leagues, Williams has demonstrated consistency and durability, except in 2024, when he missed time due to stress fractures in his back. After returning that year, he recorded an excellent 1.25 ERA in 22 appearances with Milwaukee.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mets Secure Devin Williams to Bolster Bullpen The New York Mets have reached an agreement with free agent reliever Devin Williams for three years and $45 million, according to sources close to the negotiation. The team has not yet made the signing official. Williams, who pitched the 2025 season with the Yankees, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[910,2390,755,1439],"class_list":{"0":"post-93029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-devin-williams","9":"tag-free-agent","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-relief-pitcher"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}