Doc Gooden thinks “it will be interesting” to see whether the local teams slug it out for supreme free-agent Juan Soto this winter.

Braves veteran Art Devlin slaps the game-winning hit in the ninth for Boston and gets rewarded by manager George Stallings by ...

Over the years, Sheffield, now 55, has spoken about the toll Gooden’s problems took on him, and he did again this week. Dwight Gooden will have his No. 16 retired by the Mets on April 14.

Dwight Gooden, pictured in 1988, could throw his fastball or breaking ball “at any time,” former Mets teammate Darryl Strawberry said. AP Q: What do you remember about the first time you met him?

Put Dwight “Doc” Gooden in the camp of those not worried about Juan Soto’s long-term Mets future. Soto, 26, is off to a lackluster start to his Mets tenure after signing a record 15-year ...

“There was Dwight.” A year earlier, as a 19-year-old, Dwight Gooden had taken baseball by storm, a kid with gasoline in his right arm and a precocious predilection for dominating good hitters.

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 ...

By the time “Bull Durham” hit theaters in 1988, Dwight Gooden was already one of the more decorated and dominant pitchers in baseball. He’d already won the NL Rookie of the Year Award, the ...

On April 14, my number 16 will be retired, writes Dwight Gooden. When Steve Cohen called me that day to tell me, I started to cry. I thought I had blown it and would never get a chance to say thank… ...

After several years free of trouble, Dwight Gooden finally saw his No. 16 raised to the rafters on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field.

Gooden's first two seasons with the Mets — before he turned 21 years old — helped to tell the story of a special talent on the mound.