David Wright = Fantasy Bust
David Wright = Fantasy Bust
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Gonna take some flack for this for sure…
If you drafted David Wright in your fantasy baseball pool, I have a question for ya. Why? I’m not going to go into a long diatribe here but I’m not a Johnny Come Lately, picking on him for his slow start. Iâ’ll simply repost something that we wrote here on November 7th, 2006.
David Wright will hit less than 17 HR
In Wrightâ’s first season and a half in the majors, he tore the cover off the ball. But after the 2006 Home Run Derby, Mr. Potty mouth Wright seemed to lose his power. Now Iâ’m not saying that the HR derby is directly attributably to the HR decline (although the same thing happened to Abreu), but in the post all-star split Wright hit only 6 HR in 243 AB, for a rate of 1 HR per 40.5 AB. In the first half he hit 20 and had a rate of 1 HR per 16.95 AB.
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Iâ’ll be optimistic and stick by my prediction of around 17 HR. So far David has 0 in 11 games. If you shelled out the big fantasy bucks for him this year, for you, unfortunately, the price was WRONG! (ever so bad but I had no choice¦ Start hitting some HRs David and I might take it back.)
September 5, 2007
Good call. This is a perfect example of why you don’t deal in absolutes.
David Wright may set a career high in home runs and be a 30-30 player this season. He’s a legitimate MVP candidate.
September 5, 2007
You’re correct, we should all live our lives by the book & make sure to not step out on a limb, ever…
“Don’t deal in absolutes”. For future comments I will say, “he will be good” or “he will be bad.” Come on now.
I’m wrong on this one and will address it in a future article.