The Doctor has a prescription for the Mets: A staff ace. Former Mets great Dwight “Doc” Gooden recently spent time in Port St. Lucie at Mets camp talking with the pitching staff and watching some ...

Mookie Wilson would oftentimes find himself in a trance in center field as he watched Dwight Gooden mow through the opposition each time he toed the rubber. The Mets center fielder morphed into a ...

John Gibbons still remembers the first time he witnessed Dwight Gooden make a statement. Back in the early 1980s, when Gibbons and other minor league Mets were staying at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in ...

You had to be around back then to believe it. Dwight “Doc” Gooden was one of those pitching prodigies that comes along about once every half century, if that. Today we celebrate phenoms like Jackson ...

It wasn’t exactly a Porsche 911 with a quadraphonic Blaupunkt, but when the Mets’ hottest prospect reported to his Class-A Carolina League team in 1983, it might as well have been a scene out of “Bull ...

NEW YORK − Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden are living legends in New York. They won a World Series together in 1986, broke numerous records, had their jerseys retired and were inducted into the ...

If anyone understands the beauty (and the risk) of a triple-digit fastball, it’s Doc Gooden, who blistered his way into the history books in 1985. Seems like a lifetime ago, but velocity still rules ...

Tom Seaver is easily the best starter to play for the team, but deGrom, who left the Mets after nine spectacular seasons, made an argument for second place. By Benjamin Hoffman The return of ...

When the Mets retire Dwight Gooden’s uniform number 16 on Sunday, it will be for his entire body of work during his 11 seasons with the club. It’ll be for 157 wins from 1984-94. It’ll be for 23 ...

Dwight Gooden’s memorable transformation to Dr. K took place during those epic 1980s seasons at Shea Stadium, but he’ll achieve Mets’ immortality Sunday when his No. 16 is retired at Citi Field.