You keep saying it, but I haven’t really seen a reason? Other than a bitter commenter trying to look smart by having a different opinion than everybody else?

Wright’s RBI are down, obviously, but let’s not forget his power is way down (how big a factor his back plays we’ll never know), and the #2 hitters in the lineup have been atrocious (.202/.295/.295). I know Reyes is having a career year, but when you add up the #1 and #2 hitters in front of Wright, it’s not all that good.

I’m not going to do all the match, but the #1 hitter has had 215 PAs and 196 ABs and the #2 hitter has had 208 PAs and 183 ABs. I don’t have time to figure it all out, but since the numbers are very similar, I’m just gonna split the difference and round up a bit and give the two guys ahead of Wright a .260/.335/.380. That’s just not good at all for the two guys at the top of any lineup. RBIs are mostly a team-dependent stat and also a power-driven stat. So when the baserunners aren’t on in front of you and your power is down, the RBI total will suffer.

And sicne Wright had 18 RBIs when he went down, I’m gonna go ahead and give my stamp of approval to a guy on pace to drive in 72 runs with a broken back and very mediocre production in front of him.

In late innings Wright never gets to hit LHP and his platoon split has gotten bigger and bigger. Even if he did get a LHP he’s just going to be pitched around because other guys are easier to pitch to.

Matchup wise the Mets are too easy to pitch through and around.

Every pitcher id’s one guy they won’t let beat him and one guy he wants to get a collar from. We have too few of the former and quite a few of the latter.

Wright’s OB last year was 35%, so far this year 33%. He’s currently on a 200 K pace with marginally above average OB so if he’s not driving guys in…….

Bunting in the late innings hasn’t been very helpful either.

The whole team is too easy to pitch through and around.

Turner will soon be getting inside strikes to hit and we’ll see his adjustments. As a 6 year pro it shouldn’t take long but we’ll see.

The only long term solution is to develop our own professional hitters.

This is simply a dishonest piece and all this guy did was flip a few numbers around to, I don’t know what he’s trying to do here except just write a support piece for Wright. Except for the 8th inning HR the other day all smart and normal people know that Wright is NOT doing anything in big spots for this team. As for Close and Late situations if you want to call getting a double in the 8th inning down 2 runs and 2 outs a Close and Late situation hit i guess he’s right. Too bad we all know when Wright gets those hits he’s usually struck out already earlier in the game with runners in scoring position – a time when we REALLY could have used a hit.

But he’s walking. My God it’s a sad thing in baseball today to be paying attention to and discussing how much a guy walks when we should be discussing more important things like what it takes to win games.

All saber heads love David Wright because of his numbers. That’s the only reason they like him because of the numbers that are adding up despite the fact that a lot of that is window dressing. Good job by Maniac to call him out on it and naturally what do saber heads do? They deflect like he did in his response.

Lots of bad teams with good offense and lots of walks probably finish in last place a lot too. But for some reason now everybody likes to talk about walks. Shame.

If the crux of your argument was driving in runs, and that’s how your piece read, then I want to know how Wright is hitting late not so much how well he is walking.

Wright occupies the premier spot in lineup for driving in runs. He isn’t batting third to be a table-setter.

Reyes leads the league in hits giving Wright all the more reason to have at least 50% more RBIs than what he has. Ike Davis has as many RBIs as Wright batting sixth with the likes of Bat hitting in front of him, and Murphy/Pridie hitting behind him.

Don’t be silly and start reaching for ridiculous distractions. Nobody said Tejada is better than Wright. Stop deflecting. Stick to a simple dialog and resist the temptation to be snarky.

If you read this piece and took it to mean Wright is having a great season, then my apologies for not making my point more clear.

If you think Ruben Tejada is better than David Wright, then my apologies to you for many, many other things.

Two undeniable facts.

Here are more undeniable facts:

In innings 7-9, Wright is batting .204 (8-39).

With runners on base Wright is batting .188 (12-64) with 22 strikeouts.

With runners in scoring position Wright is batting .200 (7-35) with 9 strikeouts.

In the last 5 games with Wright in the lineup, the Mets scored 22 runs, however Wright batted .117 (2-17) with 6 strikeouts.

That week, Wright was given a day off. The Mets scored nine runs that day with Beltran batting third. Those were the most runs the Mets scored during these tow very small 5 game sample sizes.

I usually don’t tend to put much stock into small sample sizes, especially ones this small, but being that Xtreem took that liberty, I thought I should show you the flip side of his calculations to give this piece more depth.

Take your time Wright, no rush.