PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — It’s a day ending in the letter Y, so it must be time to ask the question: Did David Wright throw today?
Today, the answer is yes, the Mets’ third baseman did throw a baseball. He played catch from 60-70 feet, much like on Sunday which, as you’ve probably heard by now, was his first throwing session since his neck surgery last June. Wright made 30 throws from the same distance on some distant backfield of the Tradition Field complex. Which backfield? No one has quite figured that out yet.
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Sunday, he said it was because of the college tournament that was being held at Tradition Field. UConn and Michigan were using the main stadium and there were various other games being played on a few other fields while the Mets held their first full squad workout. He didn’t want to take up space, he said. There’s a routine and a protocol that must be followed.
David Wright’s workout
“Went on one of the back fields,” Wright said Sunday. “It’s a bit of a process, and with our lack of space with some of the college games going, I didn’t want to take up a whole half field with the prep work to get ready and stuff when other guys have to take grounders. I think more than anything, it had to do with half of our fields being taken up with the college games right now. We were just trying to find time and space somewhere where we could go through the whole routine and not feel rushed.”
But Tuesday, there was no college games. He was out there fielding grounders, taking part in pop-up drills and swinging the bat with no restrictions (he faced live pitching and took batting practice). Yet he still threw in the morning when no one was around.
And all indications were that this particular throwing workout went well. To anyone who asked, Wright said, “So far, so good.”
“He felt better,” manager Terry Collins said. “A lot looser, which he will be and he’ll continue to get better. So he’s making strides. If you’re looking at three weeks from today, we’ll have a real good idea of where he’s at. That will give him enough time to lengthen himself out.”
Now that we know that Wright is throwing every other day, maybe the question shouldn’t be, “Did he throw?” and instead we should start asking, “Where did he throw?”
“I can’t answer that right now,” Collins said. “We don’t want him overexposed to where there’s something like, if he makes a bad throw, it’s something like a big story. I just want to make sure that when he starts throwing out there in front of everybody that he’s certainly ready to let loose.”
David Wright takes BP
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