You probably wouldn't call a player that hit .307, drove in 72 runs, and stole 27 bases a failure, but that's what many fantasy baseball players were caling New York Mets' third baseman David Wright last year.
With the way Wright was viewed before last season—one of the game's true elite third baseman—those numbers just didn't cut it.
He totaled just 10 home runs, down from his previous two seasons in which he hit at least 30, and his strikeouts were far higher than in any previous season (140 and his previous high was 118).
The 27 steals and .307 average were nice, but the Mets' offense doesn't need their third baseman to necessarily put up those numbers—they need a powerful bat.
With the injuries sustained last year by Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, and Jose Reyes, Wr ...
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Article written by Ed Leiser
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