It doesn’t matter how inevitable the announcement may have been. It still stings. It still stinks. It still adds one more layer between whatever would constitute a happy ending for David Wright, and the ending that seems more and more likely for him as a baseball player.
This was the cold, just-the-facts-ma’am statement from the Mets, released late Monday afternoon under the heading “Medical Updates” (alongside such fellow banged-up teammates as Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Yoenis Cespedes and Michael Conforto):
David Wright – No baseball activity today. Terminated his rehabilitation assignment. Will be re-examined in New York later this week.