{"id":360759,"date":"2025-11-06T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360759\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:26:10","slug":"mets-extend-qualifying-offer-to-closer-edwin-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360759\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets extend qualifying offer to closer Edwin D\u00edaz"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reunion between the Mets and Edwin D\u00edaz won\u2019t be so simple this time around.<\/p>\n

After the 2022 season, New York and the closer agreed to a new five-year contract before free agency even opened. This year, the two sides couldn\u2019t come to terms as swiftly, and the Mets extended D\u00edaz the $22.05 million qualifying offer on Thursday.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz had opted out of the final two years and $37 million on that initial five-year deal. The right-hander, who turns 32 next spring, has until Nov. 18 to accept or decline the offer. There is zero chance he accepts it.<\/p>\n

The expectation, based on conversations with league sources, is for D\u00edaz to test the market this time around. The Mets have already shown some interest in re-signing D\u00edaz, a league source said, but it\u2019s unclear how far the club will go to retain him. The star closer seems poised to land a deal that keeps him atop the market.<\/p>\n

After all, D\u00edaz opted out of $18.5 million per season over the next two; the top annual salary for a closer is Josh Hader\u2019s $19 million with the Houston Astros. D\u00edaz, the No. 11 free agent on The Athletic\u2019s Big Board<\/a>, should become the first closer to earn $20 million per season. There\u2019s a reasonable chance the deal will be long enough to make him the first closer to sign a nine-figure contract.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz is coming off a season in which he converted 28 of 31 save chances and posted a 1.63 ERA \u2014 returning to his peak form after an uneven 2024 and a 2023 season lost to a preseason knee injury. In seven years with the Mets, he\u2019s collected 144 saves and pitched to a 2.93 ERA. If he does return to New York, he should pass Armando Benitez for second on the franchise\u2019s saves leaderboard, behind only John Franco.<\/p>\n

To be clear, the quickness of D\u00edaz\u2019s re-signing in 2022 is the aberration, and the way the process is playing out this winter is the norm. Just because he didn\u2019t re-sign immediately this time doesn\u2019t rule out an eventual return to Queens. D\u00edaz has long expressed a fondness for playing in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I decide to opt out, I would love to come back,\u201d he said on the last day of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reunion between the Mets and Edwin D\u00edaz won\u2019t be so simple this time around. After the 2022…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,1305,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-360759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-new-york-mets","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115505108379568407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}