{"id":83827,"date":"2025-08-26T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=83827"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:06:02","slug":"yankees-linked-to-64-million-mets-star-as-devin-williams-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=83827","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Linked to $64 Million Mets Star as Devin Williams Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Heavy-Thumbnail_20250807_194815_0000.png?w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Heavy-Thumbnail_20250807_194815_0000.png?w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Heavy-Thumbnail_20250807_194815_0000.png?w=1100&amp;quality=15&amp;strip=all 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Heavy-Thumbnail_20250807_194815_0000.png?w=1350&amp;quality=35&amp;strip=all 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Linked to $64 Million Mets Star as Devin Williams Replacement\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When the New York Yankees acquired Devin Williams during the offseason, the hope was for him to continue being one of the top relievers in Major League Baseball, if not the best.<\/p>\n<p>There was a strong argument to be made entering the year that Williams was the best closer in the league, evident by his two All-Star appearances and two Trevor Hoffman Reliever of the Year Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that hasn\u2019t been the case throughout the 2025 campaign, with Williams throwing the baseball at a very below-average level for his sake. He owns a 5.01 ERA, and while he\u2019s struck out 71 hitters in 50.1 innings, he\u2019s often missed middle too much, and has blown multiple games for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Could the Yankees Secure Mets Star Reliever?<\/h2>\n<p>As the New York Yankees look to make moves during the offseason, they\u2019ll have to consider one with Williams. The right-hander is set to hit the free agency market, and many don\u2019t expect him to come back.<\/p>\n<p>When looking at potential options for the Yankees to pursue in free agency, Rucker Haringey of FanSided named Edwin Diaz of the New York Mets as a potential option, which would only replace Williams even more than what the Yankees did at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mets have made a number of big offseason moves over the past several seasons. Some might even say they\u2019d overshadowed the Yankees in this regard. That only adds to the potential intrigue of the Yankees going hard after Mets\u2019 closer Edwin Diaz in free agency. New York hoped that trading for Devin Williams would solve their issues in the ninth-inning but he\u2019s been a major disappointment. Both he and Luke Weaver are hitting the open market which opens up a major void at closer for Boone and his coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLanding a 31-year-old who has the sort of dominant stuff Diaz possesses could be the perfect solution. He has the sort of strikeout arsenal the Yankees need to deploy in the postseason. Stealing him away from their crosstown rival would only be an added bonus for Cashman and his front office. Diaz is the best closer available in free agency not named Aroldis Chapman which makes him an obvious target for the Yankees,\u201d he wrote on Monday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Devin Williams Could Look for Change of Scenery<\/h2>\n<p>During the trade deadline, the New York Yankees did what they had to do, making a trade for Jake Bird, David Bednar, and Camilo Doval. While Doval and Bird have struggled, with Bird in Triple-A, this was a telling sign that they didn\u2019t trust Williams as much as they likely did when entering the season.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Weinrib of FanSided believes the writing is already on the wall for Williams, adding that he expects him not to be with the team next year.<\/p>\n<p>If they added someone like the New York Mets closer, that would all but guarantee that Williams wouldn\u2019t return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelievers are inherently volatile, and while there\u2019s been plenty of good with Williams in 2025 (54 Ks in 41 1\/3 innings pitched, surprisingly low 1.137 WHIP), the Yankees\u2019 most surprising trade of last offseason already felt like a one-year engagement before the trade deadline,\u201d Weinrib noted . \u201cNow, with two high-profile options with closer experience arriving in Bednar (controlled through 2026) and Doval (through 2027), the Yankees are highly unlikely to even go through a song-and-dance with Williams this offseason, though they might risk tying the qualifying offer to him in order to receive another draft pick when he departs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jon Conahan covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. Since 2019, his sports coverage has appeared at Sports Illustrated, oddschecker, ClutchPoints and Sportskeeda. More about Jon Conahan<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Yankees<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees are predicted to pursue the $64 million New York Mets star as a potential replacement for Devin Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":83828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Linked to $64 Million Mets Star as Devin Williams Replacement - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=83827\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Linked to $64 Million Mets Star as Devin Williams Replacement - 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