With David Wright dealing with a fractured pinky, the Mets have elected not to issue any obvious public statements about Wright that would be commonplace everywhere else in the sport. We want David back healthy, and that’s what matters, or the like. In other words, a common sense approach to Wright’s injury.
Instead, they issued a public statement that made it clear any absence by Wright is Wright’s decision alone. He can, in their words, “return to baseball activity as tolerated.”
Manager Terry Collins has reiterated that he hopes and expects Wright to play against the Phillies on Friday.
And the Mets followed that up with a leak to the Daily News letting everyone know that if they decide not to re-sign Wright, it’s only because he’s so injury-prone.
No pressure to come back or anything, David.
The script is so obvious now because it is so familiar.
Repoz
Posted: April 13, 2012 at 06:02 PM |
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1. The District Attorney Posted: April 13, 2012 at 07:16 PM (#4106199)What do you think Wright's market value is? GMs do enough wacky wacky stuff that I would never claim to know what the highest bidder would be willing to pay, but it should be clear that Wright's value has taken a major hit in recent years. And that would be factored into Wright's new contract with the team.
Wright is a mystery to me, but I HATE the loss of Reyes, and I'd want the Mets to try and keep Wright if it's at all reasonable. The Mets should be able to hang onto guys that are in their late 20s and already dominate the team record books.
I don't know that he has ever tried to rush players back from injuries. But he has expressed his impatience with injuries at times.
Follow that link and I'm not certain how Megdal came to use the word "expects." Here's what Collins said in the Daily News article: "I’m not a doctor, and I don’t mean to step on their toes . . . but when they give us a final diagnosis of the whole thing, my gut is you’ll see him (play) Friday."
Everything else in Megdal's piece simply refers to "the Mets" or "they." Should we assume the Wilpons and Katz are handling injury evaluations? If yes, why aren't they named? If not, then who? When the Mets briefly revoked Howard's credentials, he wrote that he "certainly will not shy away from the topics that I believe need to be addressed." I'm not seeing that in action here.
As for how much $, it's tough for me to say, because I haven't been following the market all that closely but I know there have been some big deals recently. I see Brandon Phillips got $72.5M/6 yr. That'd be fine, but don't you figure David Wright (especially considering the flip side of what I described in the first paragraph -- Wright has power in a negotiation with the Mets that he wouldn't elsewhere...) gets a lot more than Brandon Phillips? Maybe not, I dunno. Naturally, David's season this year will make a huge difference.
The more things change...
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