The first thing people noticed on Monday night wasn’t the dollar figure. It was the intent. The New York Mets didn’t wait around, didn’t slow-play the market, didn’t overthink the risk. They targeted Devin Williams, a pitcher who looked more human than usual in 2025, and handed him a three-year pact worth north of $50 million. That kind of move tells you exactly how the Mets plan to reshape their bullpen: aggressively, financially, and with a level of conviction that hadn’t always surfaced in recent winters.

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Williams arrives with a 4.79 ERA from his season in the Bronx attached like an asterisk, but a career 2.45 ERA and a 38.4 percent strikeout rate erase a lot of doubt. You don’t accidentally dominate hitters for five straight seasons. You don’

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