Put another nail in the coffin of Lenny Dykstra’s financial-advice empire.
The former Mets star known as “Nails” is no longer writing Nails by the Numbers column for TheStreet.com, which dumped the column and replaced it with another, called Deep in the Money by Jon Najarian.
David Morrow, editor-in-chief of TheStreet.com, confirmed the split with Dykstra in a written statement.
“TheStreet.com would like to thank Lenny Dykstra for his efforts over the past several years. He has been a solid contributor and we wish him well in all his future endeavors.”
Dykstra’s column revolved around a thrice per week electronic subscription newsletter that netted Dykstra close to $1 million a year.
“It was a nice little payday he was getting every month,” said Chris Frankie, who formerly worked with Dykstra and at one time ghostwrote the column after receiving Dykstra’s stock picks. “In the first seven months I was there, Dykstra’s cut was well over a half-million dollars.”
Frankie eventually left in a dispute over unpaid wages and expenses.
Dykstra’s own stock has fallen over the past year amid a swirl of bad publicity ranging from his personal conduct to repeated allegations from former employees that he wasn’t paying them for their work.
His efforts to launch The Players Club, a lifestyle and financial-advice magazine aimed at professional athletes collapsed in part because of fights with publishing companies that claimed he owed them money.
Meanwhile, his wife Terri filed for divorce on April 16, and the mansion he bought from hockey great Wayne Gretzky has a lien against it for unpaid property taxes.
Dykstra, who played for the 1986 World Champion Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies, was also one of the former ballplayers named as a steroid user in last year’s Mitchell Report released by Major League baseball. keith.kelly@nypost.com