His stats for July + August:

- 115 AB
- .252 batting average
- 34 Strikeouts
- 17 BB

A 2:1 SO/BB ratio. Not good.

Has he gone back to the old-David?

Have we had enough threads highlighting the fact that he's in a slump right now? You realize every player to ever play this game has had a slump before. Josh Hamilton hasn't even hit .200 since May...

BTW I'm curious what old David might you be referring too? The old David who's a career .300 hitter? Cause if that's the old David I'll still take that any season. People need to stop pretending he's a .350 hitter when he isn't. He had a GREAT first half don't get me wrong, he's an extremely talented hitter, and a player who is borderline GREAT but IMO not quite there, still, he is NOT a .350 hitter. He's a career .300 hitter which is NOT a bad thing either. He'll find his stroke again, trust me.

Watch them come with their excuses now . They will say he had no protection in the linup that is why he is doing poorly

{BTW I'm curious what old David might you be referring too? The old David who's a career .300 hitter?}

^ I'm referring to the 2009-2011 hitter. The one who set the Mets club record for most strikeouts single-season.

I'm not making excuses... he's in a slump though, it happens. The fact that you're asking the Mets release a 6 time all star career .300 hitter calling him useless is beyond stupid. The fact that you have something against the only legit All Star on this team is beyond comprehension. I don't know what you have against him but it's pretty simple - he's the biggest star this organization has ever produced and a 100AB slump may be a little concerning but it does NOT mean he all the sudden will never hit above .300 the rest of his career.

Yea I prefer to look at a players overall CAREER. Not 2 seasons. Fact is Wright will probably play 18 or 19 seasons at a minimum - MOST guys over the span of 18 seasons will have 2 bad ones. Even the GREAT players. I'm not worried about David Wright going forward. This season is over anyway. He'll be back next year and he'll be fine. If he's hitting .250 at the end of May next year, come talk.

I'm not making excuses

I wasnt refering to you

Here is David Wright's averages from 2009-2011:

134 G / 504 AB / 18 HR / 79 RBI / 65 BB / 133 K / .284 / .364 / .463 / 125 OPS+

3 seasons, not 2.

2009 (1)
2010 (2)
2011 (3)

Chipper Jones, a career .305 hitter for 20 seasons, had SIX, yes SIX seasons with a sub .300 BA and 3 of those where he hit under .275.

2009 really? Wright's biggest problem that year was his strikeout total. He still hit over .300 with 39 doubles. His HR total went down because the Mets built a ballpark with stupid dimensions.

Shocking that they move the fences in a bit and he's back on pace for 24 HR's this year, which is what he had always done when playing 80 some games at Shea. Would I like to see him drop his K rate? sure, but he's 29 at this point I don't think that's really gonna happen. He has ALWAYS been a 110+ K a year guy, but he STILL almost ALWAYS hits over .300 with around 20 HR's and 100 RBI... I'll take that.

Its sad when they have to move the fences in for him
Just to hit 25 home runs.

He's not a power hitter. he's a line drive high average hitter with some power

Yeah he's back to upper cutting, pulling everything, overswinging, etc,
this is where a good Hitting coach would tell him what he's doing wrong and nip it in the bud,
but of course a Mets hitting coach will never be pro-active about something like this.

KLake409Posts:18972Yeah he's back to upper cutting, pulling everything, overswinging, etc, this is where a good Hitting coach would tell him what he's doing wrong and nip it in the bud, but of course a Mets hitting coach will never be pro-active about something like this

Well said

multiple times it has been reported that many of our players are NOT working with our hitting coach. David Wright's change in his stance coming into this season and every mechanical thing he changed was all him. Ike Davis going back to the way he hit in college was all him and our hitting coach even advised him not to. It's been reported numerous times that that they're "on their own" and not taking his advice.

In reality, and not the NY Mets Board, Dave Hudgens IS one of the reasons for David's new stroke and success.

http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2012/02/mets_david_wright_has_somethin.html

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/42743/the-wright-approach-is-working

And so on.

>It's called a <damn slump.

why cant it be a slump and him back to his old ways. The reason he's in a slump is he's back to his old ways. He has completely forgotten about going the other way and has the 2010-11 swing in full action. And we are at a month, which is 1/6 of the season. It's like at the all star break our starters forgot how to pitch and our hitters forgot how to hit. He isnt doing anything he did before the break.

If you eliminate broken bat bleeders and bloops his stats for the last month are Jason Bayesque. You can count on one hand the balls he has driven since the break.

the one who always goes into slumps when he's needed most.