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PORT ST. LUCIE — David Wright wants his agents, Sam and Seth Levinson, to clear their names against allegations of cheating by former employee Juan Carlos Nunez. The heads of the ACES agency, which has represented the Mets captain for 17 years, are accused in a new lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court last week of urging Nunez to engage in misconduct and actively procure performanceenhancing drugs for their clients.
“I’ve known these guys for almost half my life. They have certainly done right by me and I’ve never seen I guess what is being accused of them,” Wright said Saturday at Mets spring training camp. “I just hope that for their sake they get the due process. They deserve to be able to tell their side of it, set the record straight, or whatever the right way is to put it.
“I answered to the way they have treated me and what I have seen from them personally the last 17 years,” Wright said. “I have never seen that or heard that and they have always treated me great and been very good, in my opinion, been a good representation of me.”
Nunez took full responsibility and was fired by the Levinsons in 2012 when ACES client Melky Cabrera tested positive for testosterone and it was discovered the agency attempted to exonerate Cabrera by concocting a phony web site and product that it claimed led to Cabrera’s positive test.
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he can be one of the best pitchers on this team. I saw fire in his eyes that he was going to go out there on the mound.”
Wheeler, who had missed the entire 2015 and 2016 seasons following Tommy John surgery, made 17 starts last year before being shut down with a stress reaction in his right arm.
“I’m just here to be a starting pitcher,” Wheeler had said on Friday. “That’s what I’ve always been. That’s what I’m gonna be. When I’m healthy, I know I’m just as good as anybody out there. So that’s what I’m concentrating on.”
Asdrubal Cabrera requested a trade — and then rescinded it — after the Mets moved him off of shortstop last season. But the veteran infielder is on board with a shift from third base to second base due to Todd Frazier’s free-agent signing earlier this month.
“It’s good news for us. Todd Frazier’s a very good player and I think he’s going to help the team,” said Cabrera, whose $8.5 million option was exercised by the Mets. “I’ve played second before, so it’s not a problem.” HOWARD SIMMONS/DAILY NEWS