{"id":852448,"date":"2026-11-13T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/852448\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:39:21","slug":"where-the-mets-can-turn-to-for-a-closer-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/852448\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Mets can turn to for a closer in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets know they need to improve their rotation this offseason \u2014 however long the offseason might be \u2014 but regardless of who starts games, they must figure out who will close them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even if Tarik Skubal, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/11\/11\/sports\/blue-jays-to-meet-with-mets-target-tarik-skubal-as-mystery-teams-lurk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the prize of this year\u2019s free agent class<\/a>, lands in Queens, he\u2019s not going to be pitching too many ninth innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At this week\u2019s general manager meetings in Las Vegas, president of baseball operations David Stearns was asked twice about Devin Williams and referred to the right-hander as the closer \u201cright now\u201d both times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams is 32 and has two years and $30 million left on the deal he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/12\/sports\/andy-green-backs-devin-williams-in-mets-closer-role-despite-hiccups\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed with the Mets last offseason<\/a> after he failed as closer with the Yankees.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets know they need to improve their rotation this offseason \u2014 however long the offseason might be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1100,83,101,4,2046,1690,61,2548,4203,185,428],"class_list":["post-852448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-david-bednar","tag-devin-williams","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117608235848683388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}