PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Taijuan Walker is taking a back seat on his new team -- to Mr. Met.
A day after the Mets finalized his $23 million, three-year contract, Walker said he was aced out of his preferred jersey number by the rotund mascot with the baseball-shaped head.
"I was 44 growing up, and I finally got it with the Mariners in 2016," Walker said Tuesday. "And then I ended up getting traded at the end of the year, and when I got traded to the Diamondbacks, Paul Goldschmidt was No.