Mets Pack a Lot of Troubles Into Two Days LUCIE, Fla. - For the Mets, it is probably not quite the way they wanted to start the week. Their star third baseman, who has yet to play in a spring training game, gets a cortisone shot in the side. Their only left-handed reliever is prepped for unexpected knee surgery. Their bullpen catcher is arrested on drunken-driving charges several hours after attending a team bowling party. And a member of the 2011 Mets is suspended for 50 games after a second positive test for a recreational drug. The most disturbing news involved the bullpen catcher, Eric Langill, who was arrested near midnight Sunday by the police here after flipping his car. The team bowling event that Langill had attended had broken up about three hours before he rolled his car as he tried to navigate a traffic circle. He was charged with driving under the influence and property damage and spent the night in a local jail before being released Monday morning. Langill, 32, who has never played in the majors, told the local police that he had had two to three drinks, according to an account on the TCPalm, a local news Web site. The site also quoted local police reports stating that Langill had tried to walk away from the accident but was stopped by bystanders who had had to pull him out of his car. "We will be talking to Eric to try and gather as many facts as we possibly can before we decide on any disposition," Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson told reporters during the team's game Monday against the Detroit in Lakeland. Obviously, we're very disappointed. On the injury front, third baseman David Wright, who has been troubled by an oblique injury for more than a week, received a cortisone shot Monday from a team physician in New York. Alderson said that he was told that Wright had received the injection of the anti-inflammatory drug because his condition had "plateaued." He declined to speculate when Wright would return to regular baseball activities. The news was bleaker for Tim Byrdak, who pitched competently for the Mets in 2011 and will now undergo surgery Tuesday in New York to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee. Alderson said that he guessed that Byrdak, 39, could miss six weeks, but his recovery could take longer. Possible left-handed replacements are, if nothing else, numerous, including a journeyman like Garrett Olson and minor league youngsters like Robert Carson. The most unusual option would be C. J. Nitkowski, if he signs a minor league contract with the Mets shortly. He is 39 and has not pitched in the majors since 2005. Monday also brought the news that the former Mets backup outfielder Jason Pridie, who signed a minor league deal with Oakland last November, has been suspended for 50 games for failing a drug test for the second time under the rules of the minor league testing program.