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2011
In Omar-esque Style, Mets Shutdown Wright For Three More Weeks
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Sandy Alderson was the bearer of bad news tonight after the Mets 6-3 loss to the Braves. The Mets GM announced that third baseman David Wright will be shutdown from all baseball activities for three more weeks.
Alderson said Wright was seen at the Hospital for Special Surgery today, but there were no x-rays or further diagnostic tests performed as was initially reported all week long.
Wright will have more diagnostic tests performed after the three weeks and not before. He also added that this came as a complete surprise to him.
When Wright was asked if he was concerned that this could be an injury that lingers even longer, he remained hopeful that it wouldn’t.
“Although I’m disappointed, at some point I guess you have to understand the doctors’ point of view and everybody’s point of view except mine, that you can’t rush this thing back and risk missing a year just for another couple of weeks to let this thing heal up the way it’s supposed to,” Wright said.
He added that the news would not prevent him from doing the same core exercises he’s been doing of late.
“I’m moving forward with my rehab, so it wasn’t a setback,” Wright said. “It was bad news. I was going there hoping that at least soon I was going to be able to start baseball stuff. It doesn’t look like that’s gonna be the case, but the rehab program is still [happening] on a daily basis; still gradually moving up that ladder.”
As for when Wright might be expected back? Alderson jokingly said “maybe we will have David back for Johan Santana’s first start.”
The NY Times believes we’ve seen this same miscommunication before:
In truth, as Wright explained it, this sounded like a simple case of miscommunication. The doctor felt it was going to take some six weeks for the stress fracture to heal, but while the Mets apparently interpreted that as six weeks from the time of the injury, which came nearly three weeks before Wright was diagnosed, the doctor meant six weeks from the time of the diagnosis.
So the doctor’s timetable hadn’t changed. The Mets just didn’t know it. And Alderson, the distinguished GM who was supposed to make these snafus disappear, found himself being grilled about it.
“I told you I was a little surprised,” he said at one point when pressed to explain the new diagnosis. “It is what it is.”
Yes it is. It’s just another day in Mets-land, no matter who is running the show.
In my opinion, the diagnosis for the bone to heal sounds right… Fractures typically take six weeks to heal…
How did the Mets interpret that as ten days of rest and then a new precautionary x-ray before being activated?
Why was the x-ray Wright was scheduled to take on Friday never performed?
It never seems to end… It just goes on and on and on and on…
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 42 | 30 | .583 | - |
| Phillies | 35 | 37 | .486 | 7.0 |
| Nationals | 34 | 36 | .486 | 7.0 |
| Mets | 27 | 40 | .403 | 12.5 |
| Marlins | 22 | 48 | .314 | 19.0 |
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I cant take too much more of this. It’s getting hard to follow this team.
Big shock…i called earlier that he won’t be back before the all-star break…thanks for making me look good, Wright…best thing he has done all season.
I know. I said I thought both he and Ike would be out longer. I never understood how you could be back playing from a cracked vertebrae in 3 lousy weeks. As for Ike, bone bruises go on forever. Just ask Carlos Beltran.
Someone press the reset button!!
Same old story for the Mets: great start wiped out by late-inning collapse. Read all about the latest debacle: http://tiny.cc/912ry
I thought all these misdiagnosed injuries and miscommunications were supposed to end now that we have Alderson in charge? He seemed to be more clueless at the podium than Minaya ever was.
Oh my gosh… don’t you know you aren’t allowed to say that Alderson isn’t the perfect GM!!!!!! lol
Maybe the HSS has screwed up a lot of these situations. We do know that their treatment of Beltran didn’t work, we also know it was the Dodgers team physicians that mis diagnosed Reyes. For all you know Wright could have cracked the bone in off season workouts. Davis though is a real mystery. I really wonder if that has been misdiagnosed and will be another 6 weeks when they find out what the real problem is.
Of course the lapdog on the payroll agee will blame every one in the world and refuse to tell the truth that his master alderson is an out and liar and fraud. Sure agee the ivy league genius wasn’t a liar when he hid Ike’s bone bruise and when he magically got it wrong and announced that a stress facture in the back would be all better in 10 days. Stop oprotecting this fraud agee, well unless he pays you well. Every doc screwd up by your lord and master is always perfect. get a life, and anew job.
Harry C, please stop acting like a nut job. Does your wife beat you? LOL
Des, what wife? He’s a loser who lives in his parents basement.
You are the liar and fraud and you make crap up. We get it, you hate the guy, big deal. Take you own advise and get a life, go back to school and learn how to spell and construct a sentence while you’re at it.
Easy to say for a tool who does nothing but ramble on on blogs all day and instigate with people with common sense. It’s amazing how you still aren’t banned from this site. You telling someone to get a job and a life? Take your own advice, dipshit. You like covering Minaya’s ass and some of the guys he brought that are duds (Bay, Thole, Parnell, Pelf) yet you call Alderson a liar and fraud? LMFAO.
It’s not the Hospital, They are the premiere facility for sports related injuries.
This is a classic case of the doctors saying one thing and the team hearing what they wanted to hear!
WHY IN THE WORLD would a doctor say it takes 3 weeks to heal based on what he saw and assume he meant from the time since the injury occurred!
This explains why there are always setbacks whenever a player gets hurt and they need more time!
The Doctor say give him 3 weeks of rest and the team backdates it and when their backdated timeline comes up the guy isn’t ready for the same number of weeks they backdated!
Just a rediculous way to approach an injury!
The Doctor didn’t make his diagnosis from the instant replay he made it based on the XRays or MRI they took a day ago!
I’m am starting to think that there is nothing wrong with this team that one good doctor and a shrink couldn’t solve!
And yes I blame the doctor as well for not saying:
David, No work or heavy activity for three weeks. PERIOD…
I don’t care how long it usually takes to heal, I don’t care what caused it Nor do I care how sson he could be back in the lineup.
All I want to know from a doctor is what to do to fix it and when do you want me back for another Xray or MRI to see if it actually has healed!
If you hear anything more than that from a doctor then he failed!
If you listen for something more than that when he talks you FAILED!
I know there is money and wins on the line especially when your about to lose 70 Mil but if you don’t listen to the doctor or go to one who thinks like a GM not an MD then you are going to cost yourself more in the long run than you would have if you just let the injury heal fully and then let him play whatever it take!
Feed him lots of Calcium and get him a PS3 until the Scans show it is healed.
And don’t try to get him in before than scan says it!
Another brilliant evaluation. Lets compare a guy who has the job for 6 months compared to a guy that had YEARS to fix things and didn’t.
I’ll make a deal with des who are you anyway, funny that you have to rescue the brain dead agee from being caught with his pants down again… when you get sell outs like agee to stop lying and trying to change history every freaking post I’ll start responding like the adults they refuse to be.
Hippocrate – you are the biggest one yet. Have you EVER posted anything about baseball, or is it your goal in life to be a tough guy behind a keyboard and insult people, just because you can.
Grow up,come back when you have an actual baseball thought.
Look, what is the big fuss about? Wth the Mets he could stay out the rest of the year, just what difference would it make if he is in the lineup. We will continue to lose. We have a good 3b in Turner. The only advantage to having Wright back is to showcase him for a trade and prove his physical abilities. He would just be inserted into a no hit, no fielding team. Not a big deal-let him sit and enjoy himself.
Another Met injury mishandled?
Who to blame?
George Bush, Maybe.
Omar Mineya, Yes!
Sandy Alderson, NEVER!
Another hippocrate. I love the pro Omar people that are ok with the fact he did NOTHING for years, yet kill the guy that has years of mess to clean up and isn’t given 6 months to do it.
Wow you are either delusional or really stupid. Lets see the Mets had a winmning record for 4 straight years under a guy who topokmover a team with absolutely nothing, Omar brought a divisional pennant to Queens for the first time in 18 years, Omar brought in all these guys you all are drooling over how they are the future, Omar wburied by a heck of alot more injuries than the 11 team that is allowed to whine endlessly about a few injuries, yeah it takes a poure liar or a bigot or a total idiot to make the pathetic statement that thnymetsfan just made. As for hypocrites fake . fan the alderson koolaide people can’t fault a guy who is afraid to make a trade or make a decent signin g… yeah its great getting minor leaguers and battered arms on the cheap while you wait for Omar’s kids to mature…. And gee who is going to not keep the best offensive weapon in the history of the franchise, why its alderson mr do nothing and make the franchise the pittsburgh pirates of long island. Keep on lying all you want it won’t make the mets better as long as your lover boy is in charge. Lets see explain how three of the brightest ex gms in history brought in thise great like harris and hairston and hu and eamus and young and boyer.. yeah they are great…stay delusional and keep on lying about omar. he wasn’t god like your false prophet but he did lots of good things.
It’s really not accurate to say that Minaya had nothing when he got here. He didn’t have much but he did have some things to work with. Glavine, Trachsel, Feliciano, Heilman, Pagan, Floyd, Piazza helped out to differing extents. Cameron, Seo, Benson, Bell, Bannister, Lindstrom, Owens, Keppinger, Milledge, Humber, Diaz allowed him to make some moves. And let’s not forget Reyes and Wright.
He did beef up the farm considerably but he squandered the very money that will cause us to potentially lose Reyes on dead ***** like Schowenweiss, Wagner, Mota, Bay, Castillo and Perez and took away from our future by spending three #1, two #2 and one #3 draft picks, failing to take back others when handed them on a silver platter (Wagner), drafted for need ASAP with college relief pitchers who were all reaches, traded for an injured relief pitcher and included a young LHP Jason Vargas as well as Endy Chavez and after 2007 stopped doing the very thing he was best known for. The international amateur. 2008 Aderlain Rodriguez, 2009 Juan Urbina. That’s it.
He continually hampered the development of anyone showing the potential to do anything up here by rushing them and they all played like **** up here.
He did get unlucky with Sanchez and really unlucky with Church and Schneider (both of whom he knew from his Montreal days) but he also got lucky with the Marlins salary dump pre 2006.
He did bring in some undervalued guys who did well. Valentin and Tatis but this is what he should have been doing more of rather than giving up a #1 pick for a 40 year old LFer, counting on Pedro, El-Duque, Maine, Perez, Glavine, Livan, Sosa, Redding being able to ALL stay healthy and productive. Murphy in LF (and getting rid of Chavez) was just a pure hope. Signing a 32 year old who needed knee surgery for 4 years at 2B, hiring Bernazard who undermined Randolph and then throwing good money after bad when he really should have asked himself “is this team really worth mortgaging the future for?” With the age of that staff? I mean how long were Delgado, Pedro, Alou, Wagner, Glavine, Franco, El-Duque, Castillo, suppossed to last? He had absolutely NO ONE in AAA in 2009. HE. A talent evaluator! He needed to back that major league age with something. Not more age. He could have and should have made some moves in 2005, 2006, 2007 and gotten a waiver wire acquisition, a rule 5 sent back to the minors after a year, a career minor leaguer, a trade from the 25 for a couple of prospects. Had a Turner type who at 26 can do something up here, a Pridie, A Luis Hernandez back in 2009. Yeah he got those guys but he had 4 years before all the injuries hit and had nothing backing up that age in AAA. By 2011 our best AAA depth is still guys who passed through the entire AL and half of the NL on waivers that no one else wanted and most of them were originally cut by Baltimore.
SEVEN YEARS AFTER HE TOOK OVER!
It’s not just the money down the toilet, it’s also the constant cycle of big expectations, big dissapointment that the Wilpon has provided for us going all the way back to the Coleman, Saberhagen, O’Brien, Murray, Bonilla team of the early 90′s and here was a guy who actually KNEW how to do the job giving us the SOS.
You are still incapable of posing an opinion without insult, which just shows how weak your argument is.
Talk about a liar, bigot and a total moron – you have selective memory don’t you. In 7 years he put together a team that didn’t make the WS with a subpar bullpen. In 08 he did NOTHING to improve that subpar bullpen and as they continue to blow games and the team was still in it – he did NOTHING to improve that bullpen. More of the same in 08
You want to talk about great signings like Harris, Hairston, Hu etc……
DID YOU FORGET the signings of Alou, Mota (resign AFTER he tested positive for PEDs too) Calanatto, Jacobs, Lance Broadway, Tim Redding, Alex Cora, Corey Sullivan, Marlon Anderson, Ramon Martinez, Sean Green, Joaquin Arias,Trot Nixon……….
Dude – get a grip, for all the dumb things the Wilpons have done over the years, the best thing was showing Omar the door, LONG overdue……..
No one, despite what people like you continue to lie about, is giving Alderson an extended contract, but for God Sakes anyone with half a brain willing to give the guy at least a year or two. Not slam the guy before he’s even here 6 months ESPECIALLY considering the money WASTED by the previous free spending on OVER THE HILL past their PRIME players.
Take your own advise now, get a life or just start with a clue……..
Yeah things were going so well the way we were going about everything, why Change?
One NL East pennant in the last 23 years, and even that one only because every other team in our division sucked at the same time and one of them even gave us two of our starting players.
In the last 23 years the Pirates have THREE NL EAST Pennants. THREE! And they haven’t even been in the NL East for the last EIGHTEEN YEARS.
Yeah. Let’s keep doing things the same way that Harazin, Phillips, Duquette and Minaya did. Maybe we could assemble “the worst team money could buy part 3.”
That would be fun.
How about you stop bullshitting and put some of that blame on the guy who had a bad neck/back for WEEKS and did nothing but make himself & the team suffer at the plate with his performance. Wright was hitting what, .118 at one stretch during the time he was hurt? Ridiculous.
“…you can’t rush this thing back and risk missing a year just for another couple of weeks to let this thing heal up the way it’s supposed to,” – David Wright
That’s it in a nutshell as the saying goes.
3 weeks just to see if he can begin baseball activities then what? 7, 14 days of baseball activities before back with the team?
Mets go to West coast July 4 thru 10 just b4 ASB. July 15th at home vs Phillies looks like a possible target date for a Wright return.
ood job Mr North Jersey. This season is just not going the way any of us had hoped. So at this point rushing Wright back is pointless and idiotic. We saw what happened two years ago when Omar Minaya rushed Delgado, Beltran and Maine back. A lot of good that did us.
What happened to my “G”?