14
2011
Terry Collins On Wright: Carrying The Team, Strikeouts, Stress
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Last month at Citi Field, MMO was on hand as the Mets invited local school children who got to meet Terry Collins, Jose Reyes, Mike Pelfrey, Josh Thole, Dillon Gee and Bobby Parnell, as part of the Citi Field Kids program.
Afterward, Collins answered questions for bloggers and reporters alike and had the following to say about David Wright:
Do you think David stressed a bit, having had to carry the team a lot over the last couple of years?
Well, I think that is what he was asked to do. And he’s the kind of player who just accepts it. He says, ‘Tell me what you want, and I’ll go do the best I can to do it.’ I assume if you told David Wright that we need more home runs out of you, he’s gonna swing for the fences.
Is 150 strike outs too much for Wright?
Not if you’re gonna be a run producer. I mean, we ask him to produce runs. So, he had to be aggressive at the plate. I’ve told him, I just want him to be David Wright. I want him to be a good hitter. I know one thing, with our new hitting coach, who I think is gonna do a great job, I think he’ll be a little more selective at the plate, because of our philosophy, and so he’ll get more pitches to hit and I think he’ll do damage with those pitches.
Can having a healthy Carlos Beltran and Jason Bay help to improve Wright’s production?
They can’t pitch around him (laughing). I don’t care what you say, when David Wright walks to home plate there are certain pitchers who don’t want to pitch to him. So, if you want to, these other two guys are gonna be dangerous too. I told David, there are gonna be times when pitchers can’t get Beltran out, they’re gonna have to get David out, they’ll have to come after him and he’ll get much better pitches to hit and I think that’s gonna help him.
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So, how long until the “Trade David WRONG” army shows up?
tHE MOMENT THE TEAM HITS THE SKIDS TO PALOOKAVILLE AFTER REYES,BELTRAN DEPART WITH NO ONE TO DIVE IN & NO ONE TO PROTECT HIM DAVID BECOMES SUPERFLUOUS. SEE BARRY BONDS ala PIRATES.
I still think Reyes will be a Met for the forseeable future. All the stuff we here about ti is just writers needing to get attention during the winter.
Being selective at the plate? Philosophy? That’s all new to me lol. This team has a good coaching staff and they will be the difference this year. Terry doesn’t seem like the guy who will let people slack so this is refreshing to see as a fan and as a baseball fan that likes to see the game played the correct way.
LET’S GO METS!!!!!
I agree. You never know for sure how things will play out with Terry as Manager, but from what I hear out of him one thing for sure is he’s not going to except any exscuses from anyone about poor fundies or lack of hussle. Even though Bay had a bad year, you could see he put 110% into running every ball down and busting out of the box for 1st base every time. Pagan as well. If Collens can get the team to have that kinda mentality about the game. It will be an exciting year for the Mets.
Mark, it would certainly be refreshing if the negative Nellies took the time to add 1+1 instead of guessing @ 2. Reyes complainants about not busting to 1B never considered his nursing an obvious hammy discomfort; no one ever complained the multiple times he successfully advanced to 2B on the SS GB until, slowed by apparent injury, he got caught, then it was “CRUCIFY THE BUM, HE HAS NO INSTINCTS!” No one ever figures Beltrans’s successive nonslides were related to the knee issues. What? Easier to believe he’s dogging rasrher than benifiting him with, “somerthing must be bothering him?” We fans are unlikely to know about every ache & pain; but it would go far if we chose to support before we buried! Certainly Church deliberately missed 3B! a player rounds 2B countless times in his career onbviously leaving little margin for error in cutting bags as they should be run is consequently going to lead to missing once in a while, wonder how many of those misses go undetected in the course of a season, I believe the number would shock us If Church was forced to pracxtice cutting that corner a million more times is that any guarantee he still would never miss it again, that isn’t fundies that’s just crasppy luck at getting caught. Let’s see now throwing to the right base is fundies, only 1 runner per base is basic fundies; but don’t ever review the ’62 season then. Haters & stirers of the malcontent pot like Madden, Harper & Beningo need to get back to sportswriter fundies, fair perspectives not slanted deliberately negative because the first 2 must next be in a Bronx clubhouse.
Let’s Trade David Wrong, Dbag Donal. I don’t care about your fantasy team. The real life team has not won a championship with these fake core characters. Please let’s move on from Wright, Reyes, and Beltran.
So, you have a better option than Wright and Reyes? Or are you another Francesa parrot?
Jonathan, u do realize u must be older than 12 to be taken seriosly here don’t u?
With that in mind before I taky u seriously I want to know who u propose to replace them with. punking out by ignoring will earn your being ignored from this point forward as all children are during adult conversations.