I don’t believe any team needs a named Captain.

True leader? What exactly is that definition anyway?
I heard Phillips rant and rave one ESPN Sunday night game he called about how Beltran was soft, he wasn’t a leader at all, the Mets wouldn’t win anything with him, blah, blah, blah.

I heard TC come out in support of Beltran as a leader in that clubhouse, with examples.
So sounds like to me everyone’s idea of ‘leader’ is subjective. And for the record, Phillips sounded like an idiot that night.

None of us really know what goes on in that clubhouse, who the team considers a leader type. In regards to Wright we know:

– He didn’t want to go on the DL when he was beaned by Cain.

– He admitted he resisted an MRI on his back for a long while last season b/c he hoped it was just a strain and would go away by itself. He actually said: ‘if I didn’t have the MRI, I wouldn’t have to be faced with a possible injury that could land me on the DL’.

- He never went on the DL this season with that broken pinky. Sat out a couple of games and his first game back against Philly, in his first at bat, hit a HR.

- He got into it with Terry when he lifted him in that early season game against the Brewers b/c Terry was worried they’d bean Wright. Not that it was Wright’s decision but he was having none of that. He was so mad he was replaced that his anger got the best of him, arguing that point with TC in the dugout and on air for all to see (if not hear).

I would think these are admirable type qualities you’d want in a player. Maybe to a fault at times (as in the case of his broken back and not getting it diagnosed sooner). He’s not labeled ‘soft’, he appears to play with aches/pains/injuries that others would be on the DL for, and he always wants to be out there playing with the team, never asking for a day off nor thinking he needs one.

Superstar or not, star or not, I would think you’d want 25 guys all with this type of ‘team first, me second’, type mindset.

If you accept that Wright isn’t a guy who is going to carry your team and look at him from the perspective that he is a guy who can help THAT GUY who DOES carry a team then you would want to keep him.

Without him even if you got the guy you wanted to build around you would be forced to look for guys like Wright who are EXACTLY the type of guys you build around him with!

HA!!!!!!!! Captain my ass.. the guy was a hero during his hotness 2 months of the season, Captain this, leader that, extend him NOW, as soon as the mets became, well the mets, all that nonsense talk was never heard from again.. nobody wanted to peg him as the captain of this losing ballclub..