LOS ANGELES (AP) — Edwin Díaz pulled on a different blue cap and a white jersey with an unfamiliar number Friday when he formally left the New York Mets for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

One of the best relievers in baseball has changed teams and coasts for a landmark free-agent contract, and the Dodgers are confident Díaz's usual dominance will allow him to stabilize their chaotic bullpen by becoming their first true closer in five years.

And Díaz's famous, heraldic entrance music? That's also staying exactly the same.

“It’s going to be super exciting when the trumpets sound in Los Angeles,” Díaz said in Spanish. “It’s going to be special.”

Díaz left the Mets after seven years for a $69 million, three-year contract with the back-to-back World Series champions, who have a deep roster an

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