Note: The Ups and Downs of David Wright
According to the New York Times, in 52 at-bats with Carlos Beltran out of the lineup, David Wright has hit .212, with one HR and three RBI.
This morning on WFAN, Darryl Strawberry said he believes Wright is 
dropping his back shoulder when hitting, and he has asked Howard Johnson to work with Wright on standing taller in the batter’s box.
“He just happens to be in one of those streaks, he’s been streaky all year,” Jerry Manuel told reporters, following yesterday’s loss to the Phillies. “Things are just not going right for him at the plate.”
…he has been streaky… i have been saying this for a while, in that wright has worked within 15 to 20 game swings all season long… he’s up, then he’s down, up then down, up, down…
Wright is batting .125 in his last 10 games. He hit .446 in the 19 games before that, and .260 in the 15 games before that.
Wright has played in 80 of the team’s 81 games this season.
Manuel said, given the Phillies, it didn’t make sense to rest Wright this weekend, because the team needs his presence in the lineup.
…frankly, it didn’t sound like manuel would rest wright during the Dodgers series this week either, noting that today is an off day, and hopefully it would be enough to revive wright…
…i just can’t find it in me to rip wright, because he’s seemingly shouldering the load of losing Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado and Jose Reyes, all while getting a steady diet of pitches outside the strike zone… maybe darryl’s right, or maybe he’s pressing because of the injuries, or maybe wright just needs a day off… that said, he was had his slumps when delgado, beltran and reyes were in the lineup as well…
“Those are the cards we’ve been dealt,” David Wright said, according to the Bergen Record, when asked if he is pressing due to the absence of Delgado, Beltran and Reyes. “It is what it is. We have to go out there and find a way. I’ve said all along, nothing’s changed. We have to go out there and do the little things right, not make mental errors and try to limit the physical ones and hopefully some good things happen.”
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