PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- It was a brilliant spring morning Tuesday on Florida's Treasure Coast, with puffy white clouds in the sky and temperatures warming to the mid-80s. It was the type of day that used to see David Wright bouncing about the back fields in a well-worn orange T-shirt, laughing and joking with anyone in earshot.
But on Tuesday, Wright was nowhere to be found, confined to his current life of indoor physical therapy and batting cages. Wright hopes that doctors will soon clear him for fielding drills, the final step in his offseason progression.