Terry Collins spoke to reporters yesterday and mentioned that David Wright will likely DH in spring training games until mid-March.
“He’s not going to play a lot of third base,” Collins said. “He is going to get a ton of ground balls, as much as we can get him, but he probably won’t play a lot until we make sure his arm is right, so he is going to DH and go to the minor leagues and get at-bats, and he wants it.”
Collins wants to make sure there are as little distractions for Wright as possible as he works his way back from neck surgery. “We just don’t want him overexposed where if he makes a bad throw all of a sudden it’s a big story,” Collins said.
It is going to be interesting to see how the Mets handle getting him as many at bats and ground balls as they can while still giving him enough rest. His rehab team has him throwing every other day, throwing longer each time. “He is making strides,” Collins said. “You are looking at, three weeks from today we will have a real good idea where he is at. That gives him a lot of time to lengthen himself out.”
