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This was a moment that had every New York Mets fan saying, "Oh no."
Slow down those Devin Williams worries, though. This can be easily explained away.
The concern started on the very first pitch Williams threw in a Spring Training game for the Mets, on Friday against the St. Louis Cardinals.
It was a center-cut offering, and Cardinals phenom JJ Wetherholt blasted it 421 feet for a home run.
Sounds like a Williams nightmare, right? Especially after his worse-than-usual 2025 season for the New York Yankees.
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The Mets signed him to be better than that, more like his Brewers self.
Except here's the key to the whole thing, aside from the fact that it's just February 27 -- the pitch Williams threw to give up the home run was a cutter.
He didn't throw a single cutter in the entire 2025 MLB season.
It must be brand new. It must be something he was working on. Pretty quickly, he learned it might not be the right pitch to add to his arsenal.
But that wasn't Williams' standard fastball, which has been dominant at times during his career. It wasn't any one of his drop-off-the-table offspeed pitches.
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It was a cutter. He doesn't even throw a cutter, and he might not throw another one after what Wetherholt did to it.
February baseball is when pitchers hope to learn things like that. Williams certainly learned.
The Mets don't have any reason to be concerned.
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