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Madden: Dykstra knows David Wright has painful road ahead

As the Mets wait anxiously for a determination on David Wright’s spinal stenosis condition from renowned back specialist Dr. Robert Watkins in California, the odds of their 32-year -old captain finishing out all 5 1/2 years left on his contract are slim. The odds of him ever being remotely close to the 25-30 homer/100-RBI player he was are even slimmer.

At least that’s the grim assessment of Lenny Dykstra, the ex-Met who, at 33, had his own career aborted by spinal stenosis. (For the record, Don Mattingly was 34 when a back injury ended his career prematurely in 1995.