Mets to Retire Dwight Gooden's Number
Doc Gooden was a great pitcher for a few years, but the narrative about his decline gets it mostly wrong.
On April 14th the Mets will retire Dwight Gooden’s number 16. The narrative of Gooden’s career goes something like extremely talented pitcher who had several good years, including one amazing season, but ultimately squandered much of his talent as he got pulled further into drug addiction and ended up never living up to the extraordinary early promise h…
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