David Wright and the Mets insist he will play again this season, maybe even in a minor league rehab game next week.

On what should have been the Mets’ biggest news of the day before Jenrry Mejia became Knucklehead of the Year, Wright continued his rehab at Citi Field on Tuesday with “baseball activities” that included fielding ground balls, throwing and swinging a bat.

After a very positive showing by Wright, who has been diagnosed with spinal stenosis, manager Terry Collins indicated Wright could play a rehab game in Port St. Lucie when the Mets hit the road after the weekend showdown series with Washington.

“I don’t think there’s much question of that,” Wright said about playing again this season while declining to speculate on rehab games. “Assuming that things continue to go smoothly, for me the biggest thing is just time with the condition. One of the biggest hurdles: it’s not really an injury, it’s more of a condition. So I think it’s something that has to be managed.”

Wright will continue working out in New York, with an off day possibly Thursday. Beyond that nothing, including target dates or timetables, is certain.

“What we’re going to do is, he’ll continue baseball activity through the end of the homestand and we’ll take another look at it at that time and see where he is,” general manager Sandy Alderson said.

Wright said there will be good days and bad days and the condition will require daily maintenance. Wright had been rehabbing in Los Angeles for three weeks but came back to New York to work with and be under the care of Mets therapists and trainers.

“We exhausted everything we can do out in L.A. in a good way,” Wright said before the Mets began their series with the Padres.

“I’ve done everything I can do rehab wise, now it’s a matter of going out there and testing it on the baseball field. Moving forward it’s about managing what I have and being realistic.

“Some of the days are going to be good days, some are going to be OK and that’s where the therapist and the trainers come in, and there’s going to be some days that aren’t so good and I think you just try to limit the days where you wake up and things aren’t very good.”

But every day, Wright said, should require a little extra time to get ready.

“The amount of time it takes now to prepare and get ready is a little longer than I’ve had in the past,” said Wright, who moved well in his workout which included, for the first time, fielding batted balls. “That’s why it was very important to kind of continue the transition here where I’m fresh off getting the therapy in L.A. and now I’m coming here, it’s fresh in my mind what it takes to kind of get me ready every day.”

Wright originally went on the disabled list April 15 with a right hamstring strain. He later developed back issues and was diagnosed with spinal stenosis.

“It’s just a combination of what I was born with, the wear and tear of baseball on my back and then I had a spinal injury in 2011,” Wright said. “And the combination of those three things has brought me to where I am now.

“I don’t think it’s going to restrict anything I do on the field or change anything I do on the field. It’s just a matter now of it takes a little more time to get ready and occasionally you’re going to have one of those days where the nerves get jammed up in there and they’re just not going to let me play.”

But there was enthusiasm Tuesday about Wright’s presence and his workout.

“All positives,” Collins said. “He looks terrific.”

“[After] the next seven, eight days and everything moves forward, hopefully he’s able to play at the end of that time and get in some games,” Collins said.

“I think he’ll be back. I don’t know when. I think David Wright will be in our lineup before the season is over, for sure.”