The free agent market was slow to start this offseason, much as it is every year. Very few splashes came before Thanksgiving, with not very many rumors floating around. But just a few days after Thanksgiving, the Mets made their first splash, signing star reliever Devin Williams to a contract worth more than $51 million for three years. It’s the second time in two seasons that the Mets signed a former Yankees reliever. But unlike when they signed Clay Holmes last offseason, they won’t be undertaking the task of converting him to a starter. Instead Williams will be looked at to carry the load of a potentially Díaz-less backend of the bullpen.

Devin Williams made a name for himself in the first half of the decade as the star reliever of the Milwaukee Brewers. He sports a nasty changeup, the

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