Franco to join New York Mets Hall of Fame

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Closer John Franco will be inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame before the June 3 game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Franco saved a club-record 276 games from 1990 to ’04 and finished with 424 saves overall, the most by a left-hander.

He becomes the 26th member of the Mets’ Hall and the first to join since Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Davey Johnson and former general manager Frank Cashen in 2010.