Meet The Mets

Last night LF/1B Lucas Duda got his first start in the big-leagues. Duda batted 7th in the lineup out in Left Field and batted 0-3, however made a great sliding catch in foul territory.   David Wright is on the brink of reaching a few milestones, which could be surpassed in the next week.

David currently has 625 Runs Scored in his career, which is 3rd among all-time Mets and shy of hitting coach Howard Johnson's 2nd-place 627. The record is held by Darryl Strawberry who scored 662 with the Mets. Jose Reyes is also likely to break past HoJo — Reyes has 624 career Runs. David Wright currently has 139 strikeouts this season, 1 shy of his career high. The highest number of strikeouts in a single-season by a Met is held by both Tommie Agee (1970) and Dave Kingman (1982) who struck out 156 times. If David Wright plays 23 games this season he will become the 9th Met to play in 1,000 games. Wright needs 9 more RBIs to surpass Mike Piazza's 655 career RBIs, 2nd all-time for the Mets. Darryl Strawberry holds the Mets record with 733.

  Lastly, the Mets have expanded their roster even further by calling up C Mike Nickeas to the ballclub. Nickeas is 27 years old and played at AA Binghamton and AAA Buffalo, however he played just 7 games in AAA this season. In Double-A Nickeas batted .283 in 265 plate appearances. He had 5 home runs and 33 RBIs in 82 games.

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