A sight for sore ankles

Video surfaces of Ces taking BP

clear. The oft-injured slugger has one year left on the four-year, $110 million contract he signed prior to the 2017 season.

It's far too early to tell if Cespedes will be able to return and contribute to the Mets in 2020. But this is the first glimpse of the left fielder doing any sort of baseball activity since early in the 2018 season.

Since signing the deal, Cespedes has been limited to 119 games over three seasons because of the pair of surgeries to remove bone calcification in both heels. He was recovering from the second heel surgery in 2019 when he hurt his ankle.

Cespedes became a Mets hero in 2015 when he was acquired at the trade deadline from the Detroit Tigers. The Cuban slugger played 57 regular-season games for the Mets in 2015, hitting .287 with 17 home runs and 44 RBI while slugging .604 with an OPS of .942.

His hot bat in August and September of that season helped propel the Mets to the NL East crown and an appearance in the World Series, where they lost to the Kansas City Royals.

Cespedes stayed with the Mets on a one-year deal in 2016. He played 132 games, hitting .280 with 31 homers and 86 RBI (slugging .530 with an .883 OPS).

Since then, however, nothing but injury misery.

It's unclear why Chavez deleted the video from his social media account. Chavez, who famously robbed Yadier Molina of a home run with a dazzling catch in Game 7 of the 2006 NL Championship Series, is back with the Mets organization. He became a minor-league coach with the Brooklyn Cyclones in February 2019. it's been