To view that on Twitter, click or tap here. The Mets mascots got into the act by pretending to play trumpets as Diaz went to the mound. That has changed with Diaz establishing himself as an All-Star and one of baseball’s best relief pitchers for the Mets, who reside in the nation’s biggest media market and who have spent most of the season in first place in the National League East Division.Īll of a sudden, when Diaz entered games to “Narco,” it fired up fans to the point where they would stand up and hold their camera phones up to capture the moment when Diaz ran onto the field from the bullpen. Until this year though, few had heard of Diaz and the song.
New York Mets relief pitcher Edwin Diaz first started to use “Narco” as his walk-up song in 2018 when he was a member of the Seattle Mariners.