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By Patrick McAvoy
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The Major League Baseball hot stove was on fire Tuesday in the middle of the winter meetings.
On Tuesday, The Athletic's Will Sammon reported that former New York Mets All-Star closer Edwin Díaz was in agreement to join the Los Angeles Dodgers. ESPN's Jeff Passan reported that the agreement was for $69 million across three seasons.
That's a big chunk of change. In comparison, the Mets signed fellow All-Star closer Devin Williams to a three-year, $51 million deal. In the aftermath of Díaz's reported agreement with the Dodgers, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that the Mets offered the three-time All-Star a $66 million deal.
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"The Mets' offer for Edwin Diaz was three years at $66M with modest deferrals, according to a source," Sherman wrote on X on Tuesday.
Sherman also reported in a separate post on X that the Mets expressed that there was "wiggle room" to go higher.
It sounds like the Mets were interested in keeping Díaz around, but things just didn't work out. With the flamethrower reportedly set to leave, that fully turns the attention to Williams as a potential successor in the back of the Mets' bullpen.
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