PORT ST. LUCIE — Along the far right wall as you enter the home clubhouse at Mets camp, there are five lockers.
From left to right, there is a name slat slid in with Harvey, Syndergaard, deGrom and Matz. The fifth slat is gone. Inside that locker is one brown T-shirt, two pairs of shoes and a dozen or more empty hangers.
Zack Wheeler’s mostly barren locker is emblematic of his current status with the Mets — a club that counts every penny sending a player who will make $1.9 million to the minors rather than keep him on its major league staff.