NEW YORK -- David Wright is Generation X’s Tom Seaver or Mike Piazza. He is Queens’ answer to Derek Jeter. So it pains New York Mets manager Terry Collins to watch Wright struggle while playing through chronic spinal stenosis in his lower back, and now be sidelined by a herniated disk in his neck.
“This guy has been a special player in baseball,” Collins said Tuesday afternoon. “Certainly being the captain and the face of this organization, a manager’s worst nightmare is to see a star start to fade. I think David’s got a lot of baseball left in him because of the way he prepares and the way he gets himself ready.