Mets third baseman David Wright continued to ramp up his baseball activity on Monday, taking batting practice at Citi Field, doing fielding drills and playing catch as he looks to play for the first time in more than two years.
Wright, who has been limited to just 75 games since 2015 due to various back, neck and shoulder injuries, will travel with the team to Florida this weekend when the Mets face the Miami Marlins but will continue his rehab at the Mets' minor league complex in Port St. Lucie.
He has ramped up his level of baseball activity over the past month. On Friday, he hit in the batting cage in addition to completing other baseball activity on the field. Two weeks ago, he took 20 swings off a tee, played catch again and fielded grounders. May was the first time he played catch since 2017.
The 35-year-old Wright, who last played on May 27, 2016, said in March he was taking his rehab one step at a time.
"When it's all said and done I want me to be able to say I did everything I could," Wright said in March. "If it works, that's obviously the goal. And if it doesn't work, then I'll rest easy knowing that I gave it my best shot."
Wright, who is signed through the 2020 season, was diagnosed with lumbar spinal stenosis in 2015, playing only 38 games. He appeared in 37 games in 2016 but needed to undergo season-ending surgery to repair a herniated disc in his neck. He did not play in 2017.
Since debuting for the Mets in 2004, Wright has a .296/.376/.491 batting line with 242 home runs and 970 RBIs. He last played in 100 games in a season in 2014 and last played in 150 games in 2012.