Dr. David Wright Hopes the Mets Have a Plan for Reyes
Dr. David Wright was asked about Jose Reyes’ decision to take swings from the left side the day after being pulled from a game because he re-aggravated an oblique injury. This was the same oblique injury that prevented Reyes from swinging from the left side for most of the week.
Before we go any further, here is the recap:
- Reyes injures oblique
- Reyes returns to lineup too early, but can only hit from the right side
- Reyes re-injures his oblique on Saturday, only David Wright notices
- Reyes is pulled from Saturday’s game
- Reyes takes BP from the left side on Sunday
Pretty sweet, huh? So anyway, what does Dr. David Wright think of all this? Let’s find out, via ESPN New York:
Had Wright not intervened, would anyone else have? Wright indicated over the weekend he didn’t know the answer. It’s certainly debatable.
Even Wright used the word “surprising” when describing his reaction to learning the switch-hitting Reyes was allowed to swing a bat from his troublesome left side on Sunday, the day after being pulled from the game by manager Jerry Manuel once Wright spoke up. The Mets consistently have suggested Reyes can do no additional harm to the oblique area with baseball activity. But with the team idle until Thursday, perhaps giving Reyes some idle time would give the muscle a better chance to heal than allowing relatively uninterrupted swinging.
“I’m not even claiming to be a doctor, or anything of a doctor,” Wright said. “It’s obviously a little surprising. But, again, I don’t know what he’s feeling. And I don’t know what the pain threshold is like. And I don’t know exactly what is wrong with him, or if it can get any worse. Hopefully there’s a plan in place, and hopefully they’re following the plan. But the bottom line is I want to see him healthy in the second half.”
Wright better watch out or Jeff Wilpon might throw him under the bus, just like he blamed Reyes’ calf/hamstring/whatever injury on the Dodgers medical staff last year.
And if they flew out on the same private jet, it is odd that Reyes doesn’t seem to have filled Wright in on the “plan” during the trip. Who knows… Maybe Reyes gave Doctor Dave the cold shoulder on the flight because he is mad at him for getting him pulled from the game.
This is all speculation, but SOMETHING had to happen to make Wright question the “plan.”
Lets face it, Reyes and Wright are the core of this team but thats about where the similarities end! Wright is the responsible mature guy and Reyes is still like the little kid in the candy store.
No one has been fighting the “Rest until it’s better” plan more than Reyes. He didn’t want to come out when he originally hurt it and he was probably a pain in Manuel’s ass until he got put back in.
When he re-injured on that throw he didn’t want to come out then either and Wright had to call the trainer to come out and drag him away.
That said what makes Reyes problematic in doing the right thing during an injury is the same reckless abandon that makes him the main catalyst of our offense!
The guy just doesn’t know anything but “go all out” and if he was a bit more mature he would know resting during the all star break would be a lot better than resting in the off season while the Braves and Phillies were playing for the NL title!
I don’t mean to speak for metsie, but Wright is the mature guy because he recognizes the importance of Reyes’ health for the future over his passion to play hurt in the present; while Reyes is reckless and immature because he fails to allow his body to fully heal before returning to action and has failed to learn from similar past experiences. it’s that simple. the Mets are also at fault for not being more authoritative towards their players, but just because a person chooses to criticize Reyes instead of solely the Mets does not make that person a racist. do you really need this explained to you?