All-Star closer Edwin Díaz and the Mets finalized their $102 million, five-year contract Wednesday — the largest for a reliever in baseball history.
Díaz went 3-1 with a 1.31 ERA and 32 saves in 35 chances this year, making his second All-Star team. He had 118 strikeouts in 62 innings over 61 appearances as New York won 101 games — second-most in club history — and earned the top National League wild card for its first playoff berth in six years.
"Sound the trumpets! It's official. Edwin Diaz deal is done," Mets owner Steve Cohen tweeted Wednesday after Díaz passed his physical.The aggressive move by the Mets took one of the top arms off the market before baseball's free-agent frenzy even begins this offseason. "Began dialogue, I don't know, 12, 15 days after that. We had a good amount of dialogue over the last week before we really dug into some numbers and kind of walked through some structures. Once we could outline kind of a framework, it was just a matter of calling everyone on the line," Eppler said at the GM meetings in Las Vegas.
New York was eliminated by San Diego in the wild-card series, and a string of key players became free agents after the World Series, including center fielder Brandon Nimmo and starting pitchers Jacob deGrom, Chris Bassitt and Taijuan Walker.
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