Edwin Orlando Díaz Laboy (born March 22, 1994) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his major league debut in June 2016 with the Seattle Mariners, where he played between 2016 and 2018.
Within two months of his MLB debut, Díaz broke the Mariners’ record for consecutive strikeouts and was named the team’s closer. In 2018, he recorded 57 saves to lead the American League, was an All-Star, and was named AL Reliever of the Year. The Mariners traded him to the Mets after the season.
On December 3, 2018, the Mariners traded Díaz, Robinson Canó, and $20 million to the New York Mets for Jay Bruce, Jarred Kelenic, Anthony Swarzak, Gerson Bautista, and Justin Dunn. He recorded his first save as a Met on Opening Day against the Washington Nationals.
In the first half of the 2019 season, Díaz surrendered more than twice as many hits per nine innings as in the 2018 season and his ERA+ dropped from 210 in 2018 to 74 in the first half of the 2019 campaign.
Writing for Deadspin, David Roth described Díaz’s downturn as “arguably the most dramatic and most surprising” of any player’s collapse to that point in the 2019 MLB season.
On September 26, 2019, Díaz allowed his 15th ninth-inning home run of the season, the most 9th innings home runs given up by a single pitcher in a single season in Major League history. He finished the season with 58 innings pitched, 26 saves, and an ERA of 5.59.
In the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, Díaz converted six of ten save opportunities and recorded a 1.75 ERA with 50 strikeouts and 14 walks in 25+2⁄3 innings.
On April 29, 2022, Díaz pitched in relief in a combined no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies, pitching the final inning and earning the save.
Nashaly Mercado is the wife of Edwin Diaz, a well-known baseball pitcher. Nashaly and Edwin married on February 16, 2019, according to an Instagram post.
The sportsman and his wife had been dating for over a decade and had been posting together since 2014. There is no information available on Nashlay’s professional background.