Sandy Alderson said New York Mets officials plan to work out Cuban defector Yulieski Gourriel, who has been declared a free agent by Major League Baseball.

The 32-year-old infielder is also drawing interest from the Los Angeles Angels, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Houston Astros.

The Mets have lost David Wright, potentially for the season and beyond, after the captain underwent a discectomy and fusion to address a herniated disk in his neck last Thursday.

"We're going to do our due diligence on that player," Alderson said about Gourriel. "So we've made arrangements to do that. At the same time, this player hasn't seen live pitching for weeks if not months. It's not clear how long a player in that situation would take to be ready. And, of course, there is the investment and all the other issues -- and making an evaluation currently of the player based on workouts and not game competition. But we're going to go through that process."