You Make the Call: David Wright

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I hear this guy may make the team as a third baseman.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This is a tough one; there are so many ways it can go.

Here's what I'll say: Stays with the Mets for the entire season. .275, 24 HR, 88 RBI. Falls short of getting enough hits to pass Ed Kranepool.

[metirish]

I think he'll have a good year, not great but good. .280 - 27 HR - 94 RBI - 126 SO - signs new deal- five years $90 million

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

MVP.

[Ceetar]

.305/.392/.528 31 HR, 120 RBI, 31 SB, 150K, 1 triple.

[Lefty Specialist]

I think he stays, as 1) he doesn't want to leave, and 2) the Wilpons could never show their faces at Citi again.

Closer-in fences help and he's back to being a 30 HR 100-RBI guy. They'll re-sign him in the 5/$100 range, extending his contract, and probably backloading the living daylights out of it.

Of course his muscle tear could also be fatal, in which case all bets are off.

[MFS62]

I got picked to be a jury member starting next week. I wish I could recuse myself from this thread, because of my personal interest in his case. He's keeping one of my kids in the minors.
But this is this week.
The new field dimensions will get into David's head as much as the more distant ones did.
SO,
I predict his home runs will increase.
So will his strikeouts.
And shorter fences have nothing to do with fielding, so he will still be over rated with the glove.
He'll still make the All Star game, on reputation.
Counting ststs?
.273, 27 HR, 109 RBI, 156 K, 26 E.

Later

[Vic Sage]

He gets off to a slow start due to abdominal injury, doesn't make the A-S team, and after not getting traded by the July deadline, makes a late-season charge in meaningless games to end with decent overall stats:

.275 BA / 30 hr / 95 rbi / 85 r / 20 sb / 30 errors / 150k

He then gets traded in the off-season, after they're able to pick up his option for next season, because the Pons ain't gonna pay him no mo.

[TransMonk]

Ceetar wrote: .305/.392/.528 31 HR, 120 RBI, 31 SB, 150K, 1 triple.

I'll take the under on all of these but the triples.

Ultimately, I think the Pons will try to re-sign him for the face-saving reasons mentioned above. I wouldn't blame David for hearing what other teams have to offer.

[Ceetar]

Ceetar wrote: .305/.392/.528 31 HR, 120 RBI, 31 SB, 150K, 1 triple.

I'd like to amend this to add that all next offseason WFAN will be fielding calls about "The Mets are broke right? Can we trade for David Wright and move A-Rod to DH? We can give them Ivan Nova and Cervelli."

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Banuelos, Betances, and Romine, and I pull the trigger.

[smg58]

.290/.370/.470, 20 HR, 85 RBI. That's assuming he stays healthy.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I keep kicking around doomsday scenarios for Sugarpants: Sucks, is Traded, On the DL All Year, etc

But what I wish for him is a feel-good 300/400/500 in 154 games.

[Vic Sage]

Well, who here doesn't WISH that?
The question presented isn't about what you feel, but what you think. So, as Regis used to say, is that your final answer?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, I am constitutionally unable to go against the above prediction. If it costs me the Prediction Championship Belt I'll have to live with that.

[TransMonk]

A comeback at age 29?

Verdouchey on Wright

Verdouchey wrote: At the age of 29, and as he is left out of the industry trend of teams locking up franchise players, New York Mets third baseman David Wright has begun already a third act to his career. It is the comeback phase. After a career-worst season in 2011, when it appeared that a canyon of a ballpark was extracting the greatness from his career, Wright went back to his roots...

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Don't call it a comeback...