After sending Jeurys Familia to Oakland at the 2018 trade deadline, the Mets signed the free-agent reliever to a three-year, $30 million deal in the 2019 offseason, bringing him back to his original club. By this point, Familia was no longer the top-shelf closer who saved 94 games for the Mets in 2015 and 2016, but the team wasn’t asking him to be. The club signed him as a valuable back-end reliever who could set up newly acquired closer Edwin Díaz, and many people in the organization, most adorably Terry Collins, were excited about the reunion.
Expectations have lowered for Jeurys Familia
