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David Wright confident he'll return to Mets this season

SAN DIEGO -- David Wright has been assured by doctors that he will play again and he believes he will be back sooner than later.

But when sooner is, neither the third baseman nor the Mets can say for sure. Speaking to reporters for the first time since his diagnosis of spinal stenosis was revealed, Wright said he is week-to-week now.

"There is time that you have to put in, " Wright said Tuesday. "I go in every Monday and they test me.

"I feel like I am making progress," Wright said, "but I am not there yet.