SAN FRANCISCO–In a ballpark across the country, a stadium located more than 3,000 miles from San Francisco, the New York Mets are preparing to send off one of the franchise’s legends.
The captain, David Wright, will start the final game of his major league career Saturday in what’s expected to be an emotional farewell.
Wright, 35, hasn’t played for the Mets since 2016. His contract runs through 2020, but this is the end.
It’s a fate no athlete ever wants to accept. It’s a fate one of Wright’s contemporaries, Hunter Pence, has been forced to consider.