Lagares’s glove represents him well, though. The bright colors match his startling plays. His teammates say he is fearless, that he will go after any ball. So he often enough ends up on televised highlights, making a diving catch or turning a home run into an out — and doing it all with that orange glove.

Lagares selected the glove’s colors himself. One of his closest friends on the team, Wilmer Flores, said that’s his style. Lagares, he said, usually dresses well and looks cool, and his glove is no exception.

“He has this quiet confidence,” said Ronny Reyes, the Mets’ coordinator of international operations. “He knows what he can do on the field. It’ll show, but not too often. He has that colored glove to be a little showy, but not too much.”

On Friday, when Lagares picked up his two new gloves, a few teammates gathered around to admire them. The new gloves were a similar model to last year’s. Lagares chose a different version of the glove — a heavier, all-leather model — so he could get the color schemes just right.

One is gunmetal gray and orange, and the other, the one is he will very likely use during games, is orange and blue on the pocket. Lagares, it should be noted, can do more than field. He hit .281 last season, 39 points higher than his rookie year, and started showing promise as a base stealer. As a defender, though, he is probably at the height of his powers right now.