David Wright can't play baseball at a professional level anymore. Last night's appearance was symbolic.

"Understand this right off the bat: The fact that the Mets are so bad is what made David Wright Night possible in the first place.

Had the Mets not been mired in fourth-place in the NL East, headed for a second straight sub-.500 season and the 12^th in their last 14 without October baseball, and playing the even more pathetic Miami Marlins, there’s no way they would have penciled David Wright into the three-hole in their lineup or entrusted him with playing third base, even for a couple of innings."

Seems reasonable to me.

"The sad fact is that after the cruel tease of an 11-1 start, a cameo appearance by a once-great player in an inconsequential game is what will be remembered as the highlight of the Mets’ 2018 season. And, what passes for meaningful September baseball in Flushing these days.

The Mets could pile on all the sentiment they like, but the truth is that over the past six years, they failed David Wright even more egregiously than they have failed their masochistic fan base."

The Mets failed David Wright?


"After the 2012 season, when Wright batted .306 and finished sixth in the NL MVP voting, the Wilpons and GM Sandy Alderson convinced Wright to sign a seven-year, $138 million contract extension based on the contention that the future was bright for the Mets."

You could probably stop reading the article right now as 7-year/$138M is irrefutable proof that the Mets did not fail Wright.


"All Wright had to do, of course, was wait one more season and he might have scored $200 million as a free agent, perhaps with a team that truly had a future."

Or Wright could have gotten hurt and been unable to play baseball, leaving $138M on the table.

Also, the Mets made the World Series in 2015.

So it sounds like the Mets upheld their part of the bargain.


"In return, he became saddled on a team that has gone 475-495 since then, seen at least one of those promising arms, that of Matt Harvey, flame out due to injury and overindulgence, and most poignantly, unexpectedly reached a World Series only after Wright had already developed the spinal stenosis that would prematurely end his career."

By "on a team," you must mean "on the disabled list of a team."

"They were cheering what David Wright promised them when he committed himself to the Mets back in 2012.

The fact that the promise was broken was not David Wright’s fault. Turns out the Mets’ commitment to winning was never as strong as David Wright’s commitment to the Mets."

This narrative is untrue.

The Mets spent a lot of money on a lot of good players, they made the World Series three years ago, and they have stuck with most of their talented young arms to this day. Some of these investments haven't worked out, but that's how it always works.


I think insurance has covered most of Wright's salary due to injury ... but have you seen Wright's stats since his big free agent signing?

It's not Wright's fault that he got hurt, but he gave the Mets about one year's worth of cumulative production over the last six years.