The Mets will continue their recent trend of finally adding to the organizations list of retired numbers by honoring their most recent captain in 2025. David Wrights No. 5 will take its rightful place atop Citi Field alongside last years overdue recipients, Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry as well as the Mets other team legends on Willians Astudillo Jersey July 19, a baseball source confirmed Friday. Wright, who is entering his second year on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot after garnering 6.2 percent of the vote in his first year of eligibility one year ago, also will be inducted before that days game against the Reds into the teams Hall of Fame. MLB.com was first to report the news of Wrights jersey retirement. Mets David Wright on second base during a 2006 games against the Cubs. Anthony J. Causi Explore More The 41-year-old Wright was a seven-time All-Star and a two-time Gold Glove award winner at third base during 15 years with the Mets from 2004-18. The latter four years of his career were marred by injuries, appearing in just 77 games from 2014-18, though he was able to appear in the franchises most recent trip to the World Series in 2015. David Wright hits a RBI double during a 2005 game. Anthony J Causi In addition to Gooden and Strawberry, the Mets also have retired the numbers of Jerry Koosman, Keith Hernandez and Willie Mays in recent seasons under owner Steve Cohen. Those players joined former managers Casey Stengel and Gil Hodges, franchise ace Tom Seaver, catcher Mike Piazza and league-wide honoree Jackie Robinson. Wrights inclusion in that group has seemed like the inevitable next step for the teams 2001 first-round draft pick. David Wright played in one final game in 2018. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post He posted a career batting average of .296 with an OPS of .867, ama sing franchise records with 1,777 hits, 970 RBIs, with his 242 home runs ranking second only 10 behind Strawberrys club mark of 252. The Virginia natives career WAR of 49.2 also is tops among all position players in team history. Still, when asked last year how much he has thought about having his number retired by the only big league franchise he played for, Wright replied, not much. I get asked about it every now and then, and just to be asked about it is an incredible honor, he said in a WFAN interview. If someday it happens, you get a chance to be around Straw and Doc and Mike and these other guys, and its like a pinch me type of moment just to think about it. Even talking about it makes me a little uncomfortable because youre talking about some of the best players to ever put the uniform on. To even be asked the question is such an incredible honor and humbling because Ive never considered myself in the Mike Piazza or the Darryl Strawberry upper tier of players, not just for the Mets, but in the game. So it would be incredibly cool. Just to kind of be mentioned in the same breath as those guys is quite the honor. Yonny Chirinos Jersey