I almost debated not doing a reviewing projections for David Wright since he never made it back to the majors last year. Here’s what the computer models thought coming into the season:
| David Wright | |||||||||
| PA | AB | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
| 2016 | 164 | 137 | 18.00 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0.226 | 0.35 | 0.438 |
| Projections | |||||||||
| MLB.com | 310 | 39.00 | 11 | 36 | 3 | 0.258 | 0.352 | 0.423 | |
| Steamer | 235 | 30.00 | 7 | 28 | 3 | 0.251 | 0.331 | 0.4 | |
| ZiPS | 331 | 38.00 | 8 | 33 | 4 | 0.247 | 0.332 | 0.38 | |
| ESPN | 17.00 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 0.234 | ||||
| Baseball Prospectus | 260 | 35.00 | 7 | 28 | 5 | 0.268 | 0.348 | 0.423 | |
| Sporting News | 178 | 20.00 | 4 | 24 | 2 | 0.236 | 0.331 | 0.402 | |
| NBC Rotoworld | 221 | 32.00 | 7 | 26 | 1 | 0.258 | 0.352 | 0.403 | |
| Rotowire | 312 | 39.00 | 10 | 35 | 5 | 0.26 | 0.346 | 0.41 | |
| Baseball America | 342 | 35.00 | 8 | 32 | 4 | 0.243 | 0.309 | 0.355 | |
| FBG 2017 | 255 | 30.00 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 0.255 | |||
| Average | 295.5 | 264.71429 | 31.5 | 7.3 | 27 | 3.3 | 0.251 | 0.337625 | 0.3995 |
So when reviewing his projections, it turns out his last season stats and Sporting News Projections were the best at reading the tea leaves that Wright just would not play. I assume that stat projections will be similar this year where they project Wright to put up limited numbers but still see him playing.
It brings pain, sadness and sorrow seeing this happen to the Franchise Part 2.
