The 2019 season was not the sort of homecoming that Jeurys Familia or the New York Mets had envisioned.
Familia spent the second half of the 2018 season outside of the organization that signed him for the first time in his Major League Baseball career. With the Mets limping towards a second straight fourth place finish, the team dealt their closer, who has been in their system since 2008, to the Oakland Athletics. In 31.1 innings on the west coast, he posted a 3.45 ERA, a 2.78 FIP, a 1.