UPDATE:
Jerry Crasnick of ESPN released an article that has a little more on Wright. Crasnick writes that Wright was already in full uniform, from his cap down to his spikes, and was prepared to head out for pregame introductions Thursday night when he received the news that the Mets had scratched him. So at least where Wright was concerned he did not expect the Mets to have him scratched from the lineup.
Crasnick quotes Wright to say,
“I’m optimistic that they’ll allow me to come back and rejoin these guys,” Wright said. “I wanted to play tonight, but I understand the decision. I’m disappointed. That goes without saying. But I completely understand the direction that they’re going.”
Wright goes on to say that Mets GM Sandy Alderson knows Wright is disappointed but that he (Wright) wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize Opening Day.
Original Post 8:32PM
Earlier this evening it was reported that Mets 3B David Wright who was scheduled to play tonight in the World Baseball Classic for Team USA vs the Dominican Republic was scratched from the lineup just moments before the game.
The reason reported was Wright was experiencing a sore back. Wright had taken batting practice just before tonight’s game and was reported to be in fine physical and mental shape.
During the bottom of the 3rd inning of the USA vs D.R. game MLBNetwork reported that Wright said he had been experiencing the soreness for about a week now but he went in today to have the trainers work on it and WBC rules dictate that any time a player comes in for some work by the trainers his respective team must be notified so when the Mets were notified their doctors made the decision to have him scratched from the lineup and have him come in tomorrow to have the Mets doctors check him out.
Though maybe a bit optimistic on his part Wright said he hopes to be back and ready to play for the next WBC game and that if this was April he would be playing.
65 comments
Stick
3/14/2013-8:53pm at 8:53 pm (UTC -4)
well, this sucks.
and you have to wonder, did ramping it up early in camp, and playing longer and more balls to the wall, thanks to the WBC contribute to this?
but hell, if I am the Mets, I pull him immediately from the rest of the competition to keep a close eye on him!
darknova306
3/14/2013-9:01pm at 9:01 pm (UTC -4)
Yup. When you’re in the part of the year where you’re easing back into the hard day to day grind, going balls out for a stupid nationalistic tournament is nonsense and dangerous. The whole thing is stupid. Pull him and hope he’s fine for Opening Day. This pathetic team needs everything it can get this season.
TX
3/15/2013-1:08am at 1:08 am (UTC -4)
Amen
Stick
3/14/2013-8:56pm at 8:56 pm (UTC -4)
just the fact that he admitted it has been sore for a week, but he basically tried to hide it and play through it for the WBC, when you can pretty much guarantee if he was in ST he likely gets treated and at least rests for a few days, pretty much lends credence to the idea that the WBC is a bad idea early in ST>
Mr North Jersey
3/14/2013-9:00pm at 9:00 pm (UTC -4)
I think that it’s a bit of a leap to say that he was trying to hide it. He already said he would not do anything to jeopardize the season so what he felt must of not been enough for him to be concerned. I think what we have here is what has been expected that any injury that occurs in the WBC will be scrutinized more than one that would occur during regular camp.
srt
3/14/2013-9:13pm at 9:13 pm (UTC -4)
From what I read he said until today in the batting cage, it was only bothering him when he was laying down.
Felt something during BP, went in to get additional treatment. By rules, they notified the Mets who told him he wasn’t playing tonight.
Will be driving back to PSL to get checked out after the game.
Boomer
3/14/2013-8:58pm at 8:58 pm (UTC -4)
Well .. crap. I was looking forward to seeing Captain America strafe those evil Dominicans.
Since he’s not playing perhaps he could be dispatched into the stands to beat on the clowns with the horns and drums. This is baseball, not the World Cup.
SaltyGary
3/14/2013-9:28pm at 9:28 pm (UTC -4)
C’mon get into it! How much fun would it be to have a beer in the stands and tearing it up. We can be guilt again during reg season.
Also I am already missing Dickey. It was the right move but…
SaltyGary
3/14/2013-9:29pm at 9:29 pm (UTC -4)
Quiet not guilt. Sorry had my Catholic auto-correct on.
Stick
3/14/2013-9:32pm at 9:32 pm (UTC -4)
your just pissed that you bet on the game, and someone (wonder who?) apparently sabotaged him.
Trs86
3/14/2013-9:35pm at 9:35 pm (UTC -4)
I know but at least Reyes is trying to help Salty out so far. Who would have ever known Reyes was anti-Coeur ?
Stick
3/14/2013-9:37pm at 9:37 pm (UTC -4)
must be smarter than we thought.
Boomer
3/14/2013-9:43pm at 9:43 pm (UTC -4)
The beard is just wrong.
Mike Bee
3/14/2013-9:48pm at 9:48 pm (UTC -4)
Plus he looks unusually thin.
SaltyGary
3/14/2013-9:46pm at 9:46 pm (UTC -4)
Lol not mad at all. It was a chance worth taking and I’m still confident! But I would feel better if Cpt America was out there for the opposite reason that my betting mate is probably pissed that he’s not out there.
Boomer
3/14/2013-9:34pm at 9:34 pm (UTC -4)
Eh, not my thing. I spend a lot of time overseas for business and get trapped into watching a bunch of soccer. This reminds me of soccer. I hate soccer.
Trs86
3/14/2013-9:35pm at 9:35 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed.
TX
3/15/2013-1:10am at 1:10 am (UTC -4)
Seconded.
srt
3/14/2013-10:22pm at 10:22 pm (UTC -4)
I miss Dickey too. Dang….
Trs86
3/14/2013-9:31pm at 9:31 pm (UTC -4)
Don’t worry Boomer, I feel the same way.
Stick
3/14/2013-9:33pm at 9:33 pm (UTC -4)
wait, they have those idiotic vazulawhatjamacallits there? God, please not at a baseball game.
SaltyGary
3/14/2013-9:52pm at 9:52 pm (UTC -4)
The things at the World Cup were something like vuvacellas. They got this pump air horns and drums. The other things sound like a swarm of bees.
Trs86
3/14/2013-9:54pm at 9:54 pm (UTC -4)
That’s most likely an actual swarm of bees.
Trs86
3/14/2013-9:59pm at 9:59 pm (UTC -4)
If all this noise is fair game I want Wright to come up to bagpipe music if he gets back.
Stick
3/14/2013-9:39pm at 9:39 pm (UTC -4)
That DIckey guy. Seems to be pretty good.
Boomer
3/14/2013-9:53pm at 9:53 pm (UTC -4)
I wonder what Bobby Bonilla is up to tonight.
Maybe he’ll adopt me.
kingman 26
3/14/2013-10:08pm at 10:08 pm (UTC -4)
What can even be said here?
St. Dimples and El Rey Del DL starting the season on the DL for their 50 mil or so would really be simply perfect.
Boomer
3/14/2013-10:17pm at 10:17 pm (UTC -4)
ruh roh
SaltyGary
3/14/2013-10:22pm at 10:22 pm (UTC -4)
What we are seeing is even more evidence how Miami can support baseball and Miami ownership is just screwing it up. What a friggen crowd, this is a blast.
Boomer
3/14/2013-10:25pm at 10:25 pm (UTC -4)
I wonder how many people came over from DR for the game. They reported earlier that this is the 5th largest crowd in the history of this stadium.
SaltyGary
3/14/2013-10:47pm at 10:47 pm (UTC -4)
It’s probably only a hour flight, so that is definitely a part of it.
Stick
3/14/2013-11:31pm at 11:31 pm (UTC -4)
heard on TV tonight that 11% of MLB players are from the DR.
pretty impressive, considering the relatively small population.
srt
3/14/2013-10:21pm at 10:21 pm (UTC -4)
Kimbrel you dummy.
SaltyGary
3/14/2013-10:24pm at 10:24 pm (UTC -4)
That’s the most pressure Kimbrel has feltin a long time.
srt
3/14/2013-10:26pm at 10:26 pm (UTC -4)
Choke artist! lol
Here’s hoping this carries over to the regular season in a Braves uniform.
Stick
3/14/2013-10:28pm at 10:28 pm (UTC -4)
I hope it ruins him for the year.
of course, the Braves would probably just run down to the workshop and build another untouchable closer out of a mediocre 12th round draft pick.
They have the technology, they can rebuild him better than before. or so I heard.
srt
3/14/2013-10:32pm at 10:32 pm (UTC -4)
hahaha
Boomer
3/14/2013-10:30pm at 10:30 pm (UTC -4)
The core is going to be unbearable.
Well more unbearable.
srt
3/14/2013-10:32pm at 10:32 pm (UTC -4)
There’s a chance we might meet up again with the D.R. next round.
Prismo
3/15/2013-9:54am at 9:54 am (UTC -4)
Isn’t it better for the Mets if the US loses today? There won’t be a Wright controversy (whether or not they should let him play in the WBC) and he can get a week or two to rest before the season starts.
TRS86
3/15/2013-9:54am at 9:54 am (UTC -4)
For the Mets maybe. For the US, not so much.
Stick
3/15/2013-10:20am at 10:20 am (UTC -4)
I am pretty sure the country will survive the blow.
If anything, of the people that post on met sites that are really into it, the majority are probably not even rooting for the USA. It tends to be a lot of people who identify with other teams in the WBC (so it is seeing “their” country beat the USA)
srt
3/14/2013-10:31pm at 10:31 pm (UTC -4)
Crap.
Just have to beat P.R. and Figueroa tomorrow.
Daniel Stein-Sayles
3/14/2013-11:09pm at 11:09 pm (UTC -4)
I just picked Jimmy Rollins in a fantasy league and feel dirty.
Stick
3/14/2013-11:32pm at 11:32 pm (UTC -4)
when I did fantasy leagues I had the same problem. I tried to avoid certain guys for that reason.
Daniel Stein-Sayles
3/14/2013-11:36pm at 11:36 pm (UTC -4)
I want to win so I pick the best players but I still don’t like when I pick bitter rivals.
darknova306
3/14/2013-11:40pm at 11:40 pm (UTC -4)
As my favorite saying goes: “just win, baby”
Daniel Stein-Sayles
3/14/2013-11:44pm at 11:44 pm (UTC -4)
Exactly, gotta do what you gotta do.
R05
3/15/2013-12:00am at 12:00 am (UTC -4)
R05 checking in. Sup chesty, where ya been?
Stick
3/15/2013-12:14am at 12:14 am (UTC -4)
we sent out the cult recovery squad, and they brought him back here. We put him on a shorter leash so he won’t escape again.
darknova306
3/15/2013-1:21am at 1:21 am (UTC -4)
A short leash and a healthy diet of scotch. He’s not going anywhere.
kingman 26
3/15/2013-8:09am at 8:09 am (UTC -4)
Hey R05!
Welcome my friend! Really cool to hear from you–I finally decided I had enough of supporting that silly place…but I had hoped to see you here.
Chest here as my real self…please give us a shot here–once the season starts up, we have a lot more fine content, and the comment community here is smaller than the big house but really a great and eminently reasonable bunch.
Thanks for coming over and don’t be a stranger!
Nets coming for your Knicks…
TX
3/15/2013-2:10am at 2:10 am (UTC -4)
So, Capt America can’t play and the team loses… There is some A + B = C thing going on here but I just can’t put my finger on it….
TRS86
3/15/2013-8:02am at 8:02 am (UTC -4)
I think the formula is
N+CA=C+H+F+S
No Captain America = Can’t hit for shit.
Prismo
3/15/2013-9:49am at 9:49 am (UTC -4)
I thought this was just a really sh*tty chemical formula before I read your last line, lol.
gategem
3/15/2013-10:31am at 10:31 am (UTC -4)
The number of manure samples is not sufficient to adequately quantify the process here and a simple linear equation no longer is sufficient. We will have to bring the resident genius at AA (whoever that may be) to develop an autoregressive model. It was far simpler in the old days. My first wife would talk about how her mother, when the mother herself was a girl, would be sent out with a pail and shovel to follow the horse drawn carriages and scope up the manure to fertilize the garden. Baseball was simpler back then too.
gategem
3/15/2013-10:34am at 10:34 am (UTC -4)
Someday I’ll learn how to spell (no I won’t). It should be scoop not scope.
Stick
3/15/2013-11:07am at 11:07 am (UTC -4)
from what I can tell, over at AA (the baseball site, not the other one) they all think they are the resident genius.
TX
3/15/2013-10:22am at 10:22 am (UTC -4)
Extrapolate that to the Mets. I don’t think you’ll need to change one thing with that equation.
Prismo
3/15/2013-9:52am at 9:52 am (UTC -4)
I’m 98% sure Wright will be fine. Look at all our players who have been dinged up so far in ST (i.e. Murphy). Of course Wright is much more important, but NO ONE has mentioned one whiff of worriment regarding Murphy. Wright will be fine – as he said, he expected to play. It’s probably not that bad. I imagine a few days off and he’ll be 100%.
TX
3/15/2013-10:20am at 10:20 am (UTC -4)
That’s because without Murph, this team is still viable. Plug Turner (yuk), Flores, Dark Horse Havens, etc. etc., and the team will be able to float. Without Wright, well, uh… uh… well… best not to go there.
Stick
3/15/2013-10:23am at 10:23 am (UTC -4)
I still wonder what the team would have looked like, and how it all would have worked out, if they had the balls to trade DW along with RA. Assuming they got back another good haul (at least 1 top guy) like Myers, that 3B/OF from the rangers, etc.
becuase this team stil has a ton of eggs in a small basket (RHSP prospects and an aging 3B) with no noticable safty net.
TX
3/15/2013-11:09am at 11:09 am (UTC -4)
If I had to guess, it would have netted an Oscar Tavares or a Billy Hamilton type for the OF and then, ideally, a 3B plus some lower level prospects. Who knows, maybe the Bosox would give up Middlebrooks + one of their stud prospects
So, I would assume the the lineup would have Murph still playing 2B and Flores fumbling around at 3B. We’d see a better option or 2 for the OF and that would pretty much be it, with the possibility of another prospect knocking on the door for the OF, dependent on the return.
Stick
3/15/2013-11:12am at 11:12 am (UTC -4)
I wonder if they would have acted any differently in FA? Probably not, but there would have been more money. though in this scenario, i guess Bourn would have made even less sense!
TX
3/15/2013-11:21am at 11:21 am (UTC -4)
Well, if you snagged Billy Hamilton, yeah, he certainly would have been redundant redundant. Only thing I can think of would be the team looking to get a 2B player, if they needed to shift over Murph to 3B, but all in all, I don’t see that they would really change any of their targets. The FA 3B market was ugly. Maybe they targeted a SS and shift Tejada over? Or maybe they targeted a SS and shipped Tejada over to AZ for JUp? That’s kind of shift chairs a little, by exchanging JUp for DWright.