There’s only one way to move on from the disastrous final two months of the 2025 season if you’re the New York Mets: add and get better.

The collapse that the Mets had down the stretch was unfathomable. This team was the best in baseball midway through June and then everything went wrong. Injuries, cold streaks and immense pressure got to New York, and they need to make quality moves in the offseason to get over those humps for next season.

There are two key Mets that probably won’t return to the franchise: star first baseman Pete Alonso and star closer Edwin Diaz.

Alonso wanted nothing more than to win for the Mets fanbase and the city of Queens, but after numerous shortcomings year after year, Alonso is expected to move on in free agency. Diaz has a higher chance of returning to the Mets in my opinion, as the Mets will try to maximize their bullpen.

However, if Diaz doesn’t return to be the closer of New York, a reliever that the Mets could pivot to is right-handed closer Devin Williams.

Williams, 31, wasn’t his typical self as a New York Yankee after dazzling as a Milwaukee Brewer from 2019 to 2024. His ERA climbed to 4.79, over three runs higher than his 2024 ERA, over 62 innings and he wasn’t the team’s primary closer. He still converted 18 of 22 save opportunities, but Luke Weaver held down those duties when he was healthy.

ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel projects Williams to land a multi-year contract in free agency.

“Williams had a wild spike in his ERA (4.79) in his one year in New York after a great run from 2020 to 2024 (1.70 ERA over 222 IP) in Milwaukee, in which his 7.6 WAR was second best among relievers in that span. His underlying numbers were slightly worse in 2025 -- his xERA was 2.29 in 2020-2024 and 3.07 in 2025 -- but nowhere near as bad as what his ERA would have you believe,” McDaniel wrote last Thursday. “His velocity was up a bit in the second half, and his strikeout rate also jumped from 31% to 39%, so there's a case to be made that bad luck amplifies a slight regression from arguably the best reliever in the game to merely one of the best 10 to 15 in the league. Williams might see more value in a shorter-term deal or one with an opt-out to reset his market, but I think there will be three-year interest at a healthy AAV.”

The Mets would be silly not to take a flier on a guy who has been absolutely lights out prior to last season.