
Can David Wright step up his home run total? (PHOTO BY ICON SMI)
BY FRANK GRAY
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
David Wright has two Gold Glove awards. He has all star appearances. He even has the ‘captain’ status on a major sports franchise in New York. He seemingly has everything. That everything includes a power outage in his teams’ new ballpark. We’ve all been through this, I know, but the numbers don’t lie. Allow me to briefly visit this topic in light of a recent interview David Wright has given. Since he broke into the league in 2004, he has not had a full season of less than 26 home runs or 100 RBI’s until last year. He had a career high in season strikeouts with 140 and career low in season hits with 164.
This could just be one bad year. Let’s hope so, after all every major player has a bad year or two. We don’t have to look too far for an example of this. For all of the slack that Carlos Beltran has had recently, he has been a very productive player, not only for the Mets, but in his career. Beltran has had only three full seasons of less than 20 home runs. Two of them occurred while injured, one of which was last year. The other was directly after signing a major contract and having to adjust to the media jungle that is New York. He bounced back to have a monster year after that.
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