Wright's Wrehab

[batmagadanleadoff]

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David Wright Aims to Raise His Production, Along With His Number of Games Played

By TIM ROHAN FEB. 22, 2015

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. � David Wright has learned a few tricks over the years to help him stay healthy for an entire season. He takes fewer swings during warm-ups now and fields fewer ground balls at third base. He is also more mindful not to overwork his body while training during the season. Essentially, he has tried to eliminate taking unnecessary risks. He has vowed, for instance, not to slide headfirst this season. In June, Wright slid headfirst into second base and jammed his right shoulder. He was not the same player the rest of the year. By the time the Mets shut him down in September, he had career lows in home runs (eight), on-base percentage (.324) and slugging percentage (.374). On Sunday morning, Wright, 32, met with the news media at the Mets� complex for the first time this spring training. He said his shoulder was fine. He seemed to be more aware of his physical limitations, having played at least 135 games just once in the last four seasons as a result of back, shoulder and hamstring injuries. �That�s something that I�m starting to realize a little more, that a well-timed off day can do wonders over the course of the season,� Wright said. Manager Terry Collins, who said he would limit Wright to about 150 games in an effort to keep him healthy, believes that a healthy Wright will benefit the rest of the lineup by taking pressure off other hitters. Wright spent the off-season strengthening his shoulder and arrived in Florida in January, a month earlier than usual, to work out with Mike Barwis, the Mets� strength and conditioning adviser. He also spent time with Kevin Long, the team�s new hitting coach, in Arizona and in Florida, and at times over the off-season, Long called Wright with insight on how to improve his swing. Last year, Wright hid the extent of his shoulder injury for some time, and he declined to blame the injury for the drop in his home run total. Even after he had the shoulder tested and treated and was playing in pain, he seemed reluctant to talk about it. �One thing about David, he�s never going to make an excuse, ever,� Collins said. �He never has, never will. But I think a lot of it had to do with that. He just couldn�t get the bat through the zone with the speed you need to have to hit for power. �I�m not worried about power with David Wright. I know David Wright does what he does offensively where you�re looking up and he�s hitting .320 or .318. He�s going to hit some home runs because he�s making better contact.� Photo Wright meeting with reporters at the Mets� complex. He said he was learning that �a well-timed off day can do wonders.� Credit Brett Carlsen for The New York Times In recent seasons, as the Mets have tried to create a foundation built mainly on young players, especially pitchers, Wright has seemed aware that he is approaching the end of his prime. When he signed an eight-year contract extension in 2012, the Mets essentially promised to build a contender around him. Now, finally, that kind of team seems to be coming into focus. �It�s been a little longer than I hoped for, obviously,� Wright said. But he has high hopes for this season and said this was the best pitching staff he had played behind. He could not say the same about the Mets� lineup. No matter who is pitching, the team very likely will be a contender only if Wright is healthy. �My track record � obviously, I expect to do certain things on the baseball field, and when I don�t do them, I�m pretty harsh on myself; I�m upset with myself,� Wright said. �I think it continues to drive and motivate me. � When that stops happening, when I don�t expect to play at a high level, then it�s time to start thinking about doing something else.� INSIDE PITCH Even though the Mets have long indicated that Wilmer Flores will be their starting shortstop, Terry Collins said that there would be an open competition between Flores and Ruben Tejada. More than anything, it seemed to be a ploy to motivate Tejada, whose inconsistent play created an opportunity for Flores last season. �I�m not going to say that Wilmer Flores won�t be the shortstop,� Collins said. �I�m not saying that. All I�m saying is, I�m giving this other guy a chance.�

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/sports/baseball/david-wright-aims-to-raise-his-production-along-with-his-number-of-games-played.html?_r=0

[Guest themetfairy]

He looked so happy this past weekend - thrilled to be back on the field.

[MFS62]

Looks like David's favorite song is "Its All About the Base".
And if it isn't , it soon will be if he keeps adding size to his tush.

O.E. - After looking at the Spring Training pictures MF has posted (BTW- great job, MF - thanks), it appears that many of the Mets are sporting larger posteriors. Maybe its the cut of the uniforms.


Later

[Guest themetfairy]

Thanks 62

[batmagadanleadoff]

Lotsa David Wright articles to read today, given last night's informal presser by David on the state of David. I choose to post this one below, because the writer works it into the story that the Mets are owned by a clown and a scumbag and it's my opinion that people should be reminded that the Mets are owned by a clown and a scumbag at every turn, even if they already know that the Mets are owned by a clown and a scumbag.

David Wright's Bad Back, The Mets' Bad Luck, And Business As Usual
June 3, 2015
Matthew Kory

Somehow Mets phenom Noah Syndergaard struck out 10 Padres on Tuesday night, walked none, and also found time to give up 10 hits and seven runs in just four innings. The Mets, being the Mets�and, more to the point, a team that gave up seven runs in four innings�lost. Thor, as Syndergaard has been nicknamed, getting hammered wasn't the worst thing that happen to the franchise yesterday. It wasn't close. "We're just not talking about playing baseball," David Wright, the team's injured, menschy cornerstone, told the media before the game. "We're talking about walking and standing and being pain free." He was addressing the newly diagnosed medical condition that might end his career. Or keep him out until next month, it's unclear. Spinal Stenosis is a narrowing of the spine that, in essence, squeezes everything�nerves, blood vessels, everything�inside the spine. Unsurprisingly, having your nerves and blood vessels constricted on a constant basis is not that comfortable, and can make it difficult to do things like stand or lie down or move without pain, let alone go first to third on a single. It's a disease typically associated with people older than Wright, who's just 32. But Wright is a Met and these things should be accounted for. I don't mean to be glib about a man's life, it's just that this is the Mets. They are owned and run by a man who hires his son to mistreat employees and drop anonymous burns of his players. They're a team based in the financial capital of the world, and they're quite possibly broke because ownership was caught up in not just a financial scandal, but the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. They're cheap, often stupid, and sometimes sexist. They're the Mets. And in this mess, you have poor, poor David Wright. Wright is by all accounts a nice and decent person who genuinely enjoys New York and the people who live there, and wants to win. For the first time in a long time, he has a chance at it: the Mets were tied for first place when the first pitch was thrown on Tuesday. Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom have been more dazzling than not, Matt Harvey is back and Lucas Duda is hitting (and we will say nothing, absolutely nothing at all about Michael Cuddyer because why trample on the already injured?) and the Mets suddenly have a young core and young pitching just in time for the very end of David Wright's peak. And then Wright discovers he has a spinal condition threatening his career that most frequently attacks people two decades his senior. If it wasn't so horrible it would be the most Mets thing since the owners decided Bernie could consistently beat the entire stock market all by his lonesome. This doesn't get any easier to do if your spine is constricted, surprisingly. � Photo by Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Beyond the fact that the Mets have the privilege of paying Wright $100 million between now and 2020, there is little certainty to find, here, beyond the fact that, as Wright himself said several times, "it sucks." If the press conference was called for Wright to discuss his condition, his prognosis, and his ETA, the answers that emerged were Spinal Stenosis, no idea, and no idea. Wright emphasized repeatedly that he hopes to return to the team soon. He also emphasized that he has no idea when that will be possible. He wants to be pain free, not put himself at further risk, and be able to help the team when he gets back. Typical monstrously selfish athlete stuff, there. The first listing under "treatment" for spinal stenosis on the National Institute of Health's website is "back surgery." Wright may be in line for such a procedure, although he stated in his presser that he'll do everything he can to avoid it. The doctors have told him that a man his age should not have the surgery. The reason behind that was left unsaid, but it's fair to wonder about possible outcomes, up to and including the possibility that surgery would be a step towards solving the problem but make it such that Wright's baseball career would be all but impossible. For now Wright is staying as positive as he can, something he took great pains to point out at the presser. He's working hard and seeing more doctors than one might think humanly possible. He's hoping to return soon. Rinse, repeat. It was not surprising, or great tabloid copy, but what else is there to say or do? There are only so many answers when there are no real answers. In the face of such uncertainty and personal danger, in the face of the end of his life as he has always known it and potentially staring down professional destruction, Wright is maybe more fully the Mets in face and in deed than ever before. He's working hard, but it may not matter. He hopes for the best in the future, but that's not up to him. The man deserves his life to be as healthy and normal as it can be. The Mets are just a baseball franchise. And yet somehow both meet in this burning bummer of a Tomorrowland, made all the sadder for what could and indeed should have been. For Wright, this is tragic. It's tragic for the Mets, too, in large part because it all feels so familiar.

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/david-wrights-bad-back-the-mets-bad-luck-and-business-as-usual

[Zvon]

Which one is the clown and which is the scumbag?

[ashie62]

I thought he was headed for the Hall of fame in 2005.

Not an early retirement.

So it goes.

[Guest d'Kong76]

This guy writes for Forbes? lol

"Rinse, repeat. It was not surprising, or great tabloid copy, but what else is there to say or do?"

You could just shut up!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: David Wright's Bad Back, The Mets' Bad Luck, And Business As ....

This guy's going for purple prose award. Jesus H.

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: This guy writes for Forbes? lol "Rinse, repeat. It was not surprising, or great tabloid copy, but what else is there to say or do?" You could just shut up!

Why should he shut up? He needs your permission to cover Wright's comments? I don't see what's so wrong with his piece. That you're bothered by something I post that's critical of the W's is no surprise. You don't feel like starting with me so you take it out on the article I post, of course barnacling in on someone's elses post.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Has nothing to do with you.

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: This guy writes for Forbes? lol

Yeah, I know what you mean. He probably snuck in one day, disguised as a pizza deliveryperson with an actual pizza and took over a desk and a computer when nobody was looking. He's been writing for Forbes ever since. I'll bet he didn't even finish Junior High School.

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: Has nothing to do with you.

I know. And for the record, it never does or did.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I looked for a masthead at Forbes site.... wondering if he was the
nephew of someone there. He clearly didn't get the gig with talent.

[Guest d'Kong76]

What record, why do you have to be a constant dick with me?
Just stop. Stop it NOW!!!!

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: What record, why do you have to be a constant dick with me? Just stop. Stop it NOW!!!!

Constsant? Isn't it the other way around?

[Guest d'Kong76]

You're big on agendas... KC/Kong/the admin sucks... we get it.
Go PM someone, get some more people to quit. lol

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I don't see what's so wrong with his piece.

It's embarrassingly awful. Being insulting to the Mets' owners shouldn't make up for that.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Imagine being terrible at your job. Supremely terrible, like if your job was to photocopy legal documents but instead you set them on fire. Or if your job was to take goats out to pasture, you led them into a minefield, Monday through Friday. Or if your job was to write sports-related words on the internet and you wrote this paragraph! Just awful!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I don't see what's so wrong with his piece. It's embarrassingly awful. Being insulting to the Mets' owners shouldn't make up for that.

OK. Take out the shots at the owners, which I could see how someone other than me might deem gratuitous. So now what's so terrible?

[Edgy MD]

Really? Let's start with the second sentence. Take out the aside.

The Mets, being the Mets... lost.

The Mets, of course, began the game tied for first, lost, but remained qualified for the playoffs at the end of the day. He's writing for sports.vice.com, though, and he's not interested in facts. Just play the lolmets angle, baby, and take it right to the bank, facts be damned.

It gets stupider, more pointless, and less defensible from there.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I see what you mean. But I gotta admit, I like those lolmets articles. The team deserves that kind of press. These owners are repulsive.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: OK. Take out the shots at the owners, which I could see how someone other than me might deem gratuitous. So now what's so terrible?

Take out the shots at the owners and he doesn't have an article.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

It's like some teenage girl writing in a diary or a college newspaper piece. Desperately overwritten

[batmagadanleadoff]

Jeez, give him some slack, He shit on the Wilpons. He should be getting medals of honor. What's the matter with everybody?

[Theoldmole]

All owners are repulsive. Every year, 29 teams, being the Cubs/Orioles/Blue Jays/Dodgers, and yes, even Yankees (who also have repulsive owners) lose. Syndergaard is a kid who, like every other young pitcher, has to learn to keep his concentration when things are going bad. That was a stupid, repulsive piece.

[Centerfield]

I didn't think the article was terrible. Well, at least, not any more terrible than a lot of the garbage that is printed in other places. Wright's situation is uncertain. It sucks. Bad luck for the Mets. Bla bla bla.

But then again, I agree that the Wilpons suck, so maybe I'm biased.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I have no patience for this kind of (my-cherry-picked) crap...

wasn't the worst thing that happen to the franchise yesterday. It wasn't close. But Wright is a Met and these things should be accounted for. They're the Mets. If it wasn't so horrible it would be the most Mets thing since the owners decided Bernie could consistently beat the entire stock market all by his lonesome. It's tragic for the Mets, too, in large part because it all feels so familiar.

[Ceetar]

if you want to pound the stupid Wilpons angle in the offseason, fine. But if you stretch to work it into unrelated pieces, I'm not going to read it.

I legitimately don't care who owns the team right now. I don't really care about the draft, or who's doing well in single A ball. I care about the 25 man roster and the fringes beyond that. the team on the field, the actual game being played. All that ancillary stuff is to kill time when baseball's not being played.

You got all you needed to know from Tweets last night. Wright's on a week to week schedule, surgery is not currently on the table. When/if he feels better, he starts doing baseball things and hopes it doesn't start hurting again. No one knows much more.

[ashie62]

Ceets nailed it. Al the rest is shite.