Devin Williams seems sure to have the same season takeaway as another NY Mets player

Devin Williams is going to spend the next three years with the New York Mets barring a trade of some kind. His role should be fluid with the most likely outcome having him finish off games for the Mets as the closer this coming year.

What’s he going to do? Coming off of a down year with the New York Yankees, fans and the front office executives in Flushing are operating with confidence that he’ll have fewer blowups and live up to the peripherals that suggest he was more lucky than bad this past year.

In any case, knowing exactly what Williams will do would require you to have the same bloodline as an ancient oracle. Williams showed he can pitch well and fail to deliver results last season. One prediction feels way too possible to not come true.

Devin Williams is going to have a season similar to what Clay Holmes did in 2025

How do we classify Clay Holmes’ first season with the Mets? He was criticized throughout the year but in the end he was one of the club’s most stable starting pitchers and came through in his final start of the season to keep them alive. This is precisely what we should be thinking Williams will do. He might not be Edwin DIaz, but he’s going to finish the year with us looking at things from a different perspective and appreciate the overall performance.

A 12-8 record, 3.53 ERA, and 165.1 innings of work is what Holmes delivered in year one starting for the Mets. The bold gamble to convert him from a reliever to starter worked well. The shortcomings were expected with an inability to go long in games. Late-season burnout, which plagued several Mets starters, was inescapable.

The issues with Holmes were more problematic because of the breaking foundation in the rotation around him. The bullpen’s struggles late added to making him feel a little less impressive than he was. The same could be said about Williams last year in a Yankees bullpen that had several missteps with high-leverage relievers. Along with Williams, Luke Weaver had a time of distrust. Camilo Doval proved he wasn’t invincible either.

A “Clay Holmes” season can be interpreted a lot of ways. Months after the season has ended, the best way to describe it might be to deliver exactly what was anticipated. Holmes was projected to have a 3.52 ERA in 21 starts and log 144 innings. Often, FanGraphs will have starters pitching in relief a few times (even if they haven’t done so before) so that’s not anything major. For the ERA to match so closely is astonishing when he was such a wild card.

Some players are unpredictable. Williams seems to be one of those players with how brilliant he has been in the past and the struggles he faced last year. What feels like a safe prediction is that he’ll be satisfying and meet most expectations just as Holmes, through some trials, managed to.