“The Mets Have to trade David Wright.” Max turned to me today in our living room and 
made the case that Wright has to be traded. The people at Mets360.com wrote this column today and it makes the case that David Wright, and Jason Bay should be traded for any single prospect in a salary dump. It’s a fun scenario and worth a read (good job guys, sorry you chose to cover such a lowly team). I’ll let Max explain why Wright has to go soon enough but I want to illuminate why that could be the single worst decision the team could make.
Who goes to these games if David Wright isn’t playing? What jerseys do the good people of Queens buy if David Wright is gone? Who do the Mets market if the 3rd baseman is gone? Ike Davis? I like Ike. I think he can be a very good first baseman going forward and is exactly the solution and production that the Mets need at this time of their history but, the guy is ugly. David Wright is a career .300/.380/.508 and one of the game’s good guys and Mets fans love him. Sure he may not be able to carry the team, or help them to lose less than 100 games but he’s got to be the redeeming quality on a bad team. Remember how the Astro’s still had a few redeeming guys earlier this year. Yeah they were terrible but Hunter Pence was a player and Michael Bourn could really play center. Now, what do they market? Wandy Rodriguez and his 89 mph fastball?
The Mets are in hard times financially and David Wright isn’t helping but, there’s no reason they need to turn themselves into the 2011 Astros. They play in New York, where funds and attendance shouldn’t be the issue. Trading away David Wright turns the team into a AAAA team just like the Astros this year and puts them in position to be bad for 5 more years. With him, they can build their system and keep some semblance of a respectable attendance perhaps allowing the team to lose less than the $70 MM they claimed to have lost this year. At this point for the Mets, it’s not about winning games, it’s about getting people in the seats to be able to eventually win games.
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Question of the Day: Can you see the purple in the rainbow?
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-Sean Morash
