MIAMI, FL - SEPTEMBER 22: David Wright #5 of the New York Mets looks on during batting practice before a MLB game against the New York Mets at Sun Life Stadium on September 22, 2010 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)
Long before my time on this earth, the New York Mets were a franchise without steadiness at third base. I wouldn’t know. By the time I was born, Howard Johnson was already making a name for himself over at the hot corner. In my prime baseball watching years as a teenager, there was David Wright to solidify the fact that the Mets had finally found the magic formula for filling out the position.