On July 21, 2004, the Mets called up David Wright from Norfolk to play in their 94th game of the season. On July 21, 2009, David Wright played in the Mets’ 93rd game of this season. That means David Wright has been a big leaguer for precisely five seasons’ worth of Mets baseball.
Of a possible 810 games, he has participated in 795, starting all but a handful. Divide his five years as a Met into five seasons and you get, per season every season:
• 159 Games Played
• 186 Hits
• 78 Walks
• 27 Home Runs
• 42 Doubles
• 107 Runs Batted In
• 104 Runs Scored
• 23 Stolen Bases
• .310 Batting Average
• .391 On Base Percentage
• .523 Slugging Percentage
Throw in everything else that you have probably noticed since the first game five years ago yesterday through the most recent game last night and tell me: Is David Wright, after exactly five seasons’ worth of Mets baseball, the greatest everyday Met in club history?