David Wright
Wright's 127 OPS+ peak in 2007 represents the best offensive season by a Mets position player since Mike Piazza's prime, yet it barely scratches the surface of what this franchise cornerstone meant to New York. That .325 average paired with 30 homers showcased a rare blend of contact hitting and power that defined his peak years.
The seven All-Star selections tell only part of the story. Wright's .296 career average over 15 seasons of consistent production made him the steady heartbeat of Mets lineups through multiple rebuilds. His 242 home runs rank among the franchise leaders, remarkable for a player who spent his entire career in pitcher-friendly Citi Field during its most extreme years.
Those two Gold Gloves underscore Wright's defensive value at the hot corner, where his instincts and arm strength complemented his offensive contributions. Few third basemen in Mets history combined his level of hitting consistency with defensive reliability across such a sustained period.
Career · Batting
14 seasons| Year | Team | G | AB | HR | RBI | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | NYM | 69 | 263 | 14 | 40 | .293 | .857 | 112 |
| 2005 | NYM | 160 | 575 | 27 | 102 | .306 | .912 | 122 |
| 2006 | NYM | 154 | 582 | 26 | 116 | .311 | .912 | 119 |
| 2007 | NYM | 160 | 604 | 30 | 107 | .325 | .963 | 127 |
| 2008 | NYM | 160 | 626 | 33 | 124 | .302 | .924 | 123 |
| 2009 | NYM | 144 | 535 | 10 | 72 | .307 | .837 | 111 |
| 2010 | NYM | 157 | 587 | 29 | 103 | .283 | .856 | 118 |
| 2011 | NYM | 102 | 389 | 14 | 61 | .254 | .771 | 107 |
| 2012 | NYM | 156 | 581 | 21 | 93 | .306 | .883 | 122 |
| 2013 | NYM | 112 | 430 | 18 | 58 | .307 | .904 | 127 |
| 2014 | NYM | 134 | 535 | 8 | 63 | .269 | .698 | 100 |
| 2015 | NYM | 38 | 152 | 5 | 17 | .289 | .814 | 113 |
| 2016 | NYM | 37 | 137 | 7 | 14 | .226 | .788 | 107 |
| 2018 | NYM | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | 46 |
| Career | 1585 | 5998 | 242 | 970 | .296 | — | — | |
Every ball this hitter has put in play — how hard it left the bat, and at what angle. The red field behind the dots shows how much damage that kind of contact does, league-wide: the darker the red, the better things go for the hitter.
The field — league-average xwOBA (what a batted ball is typically worth: 0.0 is a sure out, ~2.0 a sure home run) for every exit-velocity × launch-angle combination, measured from 1.3 million regular-season balls in play since 2015. The dark ridge — balls hit 105+ mph at 25–30° — is the barrel zone, where contact becomes near-automatic extra bases.
The dots — this hitter’s career regular-season balls in play, grouped to a fine grid; a bigger dot means more batted balls at that exact combination. Dots piled onto the red ridge are damage; dots low on the pale field are weak or mishit contact. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.
Matchups, projections, comps — grounded in Lahman, Retrosheet, and Statcast.