David Wright’s No. 5 will be retired by the New York Mets before a July 19 game against Cincinnati.

Darryl Strawberry told New York Mets fans it was a mistake to leave for the Los Angeles Dodgers 34 years ago.

Honored by the New York Mets with the retirement of his No. 16 on Sunday, Dwight Gooden recounted how his career in Queens was cut short by drugs and alcohol, forcing him to sign across town ahead of the 1996 seasons.

FREEHOLD, N.J. – Former New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden has been sentenced to a year of probation in connection with a drug arrest in New Jersey in 2019. Gooden appeared before a judge in a virtual proceeding on Thursday. Gooden's guilty plea last year afforded him the chance to avoid prison if he completed a drug rehabilitation program. “I understand that my recovery has to come first,’’ the 55-year-old Gooden told the judge Thursday. He was suspended from baseball for part of the 1994 season and all of the 1995 season after testing positive for cocaine.