20 Facts About Wilmer Flores

1. Wilmer Flores finished his 2013 season with the 51s batting.

2. Wilmer Flores appeared in the All-Star Futures Game for the second time in his career.

3. Wilmer Flores is out of the lineup Sunday against the Giants, Tim Healey of Newsday reports.

4. Wilmer Flores has celebrated the total number of 27 birthdays till date.

5. Wilmer Flores had driven in the other Mets run earlier in the game.

6. Wilmer Flores took a step back against lefties last year and his knees are shot.

7. Wilmer Flores will missed by a great many Mets fans.

8. Wilmer Flores has spent his entire six year major league career with New York and is best known for his versatility, his visible emotions in a game against the Padres in 2015, and his proclivity for the dramatic.

9. Wilmer Flores loved by fans, but Mets won't tender him a deal to stay.

10. Wilmer Flores became highly emotional and was seen weeping while playing in the infield.

11. Wilmer Flores learned English watching the famed NBC sitcom, and every stride to the plate the rest of his Mets career was accompanied by rhythmic hand-clapping.

12. Wilmer Flores was never going to approach Cano's borderline Hall of Fame status, but a handful of statistically ordinary seasons endeared him to Mets fans in a way Cano never appealed to Yankees fans during his terrific run as their second baseman from 2005 through 2013.

13. Wilmer Flores was non-tendered by the Mets on Friday, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports.

14. Wilmer Flores had driven in the other Mets' run earlier in the game.

15. Wilmer Flores made the Mets' roster for Opening Day in 2015.

16. Wilmer Flores had only started one game at second base going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.

17. Wilmer Flores started the 2014 season with the 51s, but was called up April 2 along with Kyle Farnsworth to replace Bobby Parnell going to the disabled list and with Daniel Murphy on paternity leave.

18. In 2011, the Mets sent Wilmer Flores back to the St Lucie Mets of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League to convert him from a shortstop into a third baseman.

19. Wilmer Flores started at second base for the World team at the 2009 All-Star Futures Game.

20. Wilmer Flores signed as an international free agent out of Venezuela with the Mets on August 6, 2007, his 16th birthday.