David Wright: 90 wins 'attainable'

[Johnnydollaz89]

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Team captain David Wright agrees with general manager Sandy Alderson that the New York Mets can win 90 games this season.

[+] Enlarge Adam RubinDavid Wright backs GM Sandy Alderson's reported belief that the Mets can win 90 games in 2014. "I love the fact that Sandy is confident in us," he said.



A day after the New York Daily News reported that Alderson told staffers in an internal meeting that the club was capable of that win total, Wright said he admired the GM's enthusiasm.
The Mets have posted consecutive 74-88 records and have produced five straight losing seasons, tied with the Houston Astros for the longest active streak in baseball. They also have a payroll slightly less than $90 million and likely will be without ace Matt Harvey for the 2014 season while he recovers from Tommy John surgery.
"We've got good players," Wright said. "I love the fact that Sandy is confident in us. I think 90 is challenging, it's attainable, and it's a good starting point for us. You know, number goals, it's tough to come out and say, 'I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. We're going to do that.' But I think 90 is a good starting point for giving us something to shoot for and getting guys to understand that mediocrity is not going to be acceptable.
"It's not about being better than last year. What does that get us? Third or fourth place? It's about being a good team and being a playoff-contending team. Ninety wins is a good starting point."
Wright said the 90-win total was not communicated to the players by Alderson.
"That's the first I heard about it," Wright said about Thursday's published report. "But I like the fact that, like I said, he seems confident. He's had a chance now to bring in some of his guys, make some of his moves. I think it's great."
Principal owner Fred Wilpon apparently finds it important to reach 90 wins.
At the meeting in which Alderson stated the win total is achievable, Wilpon reportedly said: "We better win 90."

David Wright of New York Mets agrees with Sandy Alderson that Mets can win 90 games - ESPN New York

Hell yeah it is!!

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Anything over .500 would be awesome...and I think they'll win somewhere between 82-87 games.
Hopefully the latter will be enough for a wildcard.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Anything over .500 would be awesome...and I think they'll win somewhere between 82-87 games.
Hopefully the latter will be enough for a wildcard.

Of course everything rides on the overall health of the team.
And we absolutely must play better at home.


YGB!!!

 

[DevilishWon]

I'll be happy if we win opening day!

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

I'll be happy if we win opening day!

Just curious, were you ever a member of the now defunct metsgeek site ?

 

[TEB11]

NO WAY! 70 to 75 at most.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

NO WAY! 70 to 75 at most.

nice optimistic outlook.......smh/lol

 

[TEB11]

Today was a perfect example of the same ole Mets even though it was pre-season. 4-1 lead and lose 5-4. I've seen it way to many times. Ruben Tejada, 0-3 with 4 men LOB. NICE!

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Well Tejada sucks, we all know that. I have no faith in him.

This team played .500 ball after the all-star break. No reason not to believe they can't do it again this season.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Today was a perfect example of the same ole Mets even though it was pre-season. 4-1 lead and lose 5-4. I've seen it way too many times. Ruben Tejada, 0-3 with 4 men LOB. NICE!

Wow....it's only the 1st game of ST.......chillax, brah.

They'll figure it out.

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Wow....it's only the 1st game of ST.......chillax, brah.

They'll figure it out.

Was just coming in here to post this. Throwing in the towel on game 1

 

[Sportsguy9695]

theres no way the Mets can win 90 games this year. If they are above .500 they should be happy with that

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

theres no way the Mets can win 90 games this year. If they are above .500 they should be happy with that

Met fan?

There's not ''no way'' anything can happen, it's a long season. Everybody said the Pirates would fall off last year and that didn't happen. Nobody expected that. We have the pitching, even without Harvey.

 

[TEB11]

Mets aren't the Pirates. Not even close. We'll lose at least 25 games where we take the lead into the 6th or 7th inning and the bullpen will give it away. It happens every year. 80 to 85 wins at the most, 12 games under .500 and no higher than 3rd place in the NL East. Mets have been consistent with these numbers since the Carlos Beltran back wards K. Why change now!

 

[BigDDude]

I would expect Wright to say nothing less, and he should be touting how he thinks they can win, and win big this year.

I however do not share his feelings, thinking that 80 wins would be more realistic.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

90 wins would be the absolute best case scenario. If all of the if's turn out to be positive then yes.

If our bullpen can actually lockdown games.
If our 3-5 guys can stay healthy and produce close to top level.
If Wheeler can become Harvey 2.0 with Colon and Niese approaching 15 wins a piece.
If D'Arnaud becomes half the player he's touted to be.

2015 is still our target year. This will be the first full season for a lot of our young guys. Too inexperienced and there will be growing pains. Plus SS is still too much of a weakness. I don't think 90+ is unrealistic for 2015 though. I'd say we're closer to the lower-mid 80 wins.

 

[navamind]

Met fan?

There's not ''no way'' anything can happen, it's a long season. Everybody said the Pirates would fall off last year and that didn't happen. Nobody expected that. We have the pitching, even without Harvey.

I would take the Pirates offense over the Mets' easily. And even if they had a healthy Harvey, it's still not as good as the '13 Pirates staff. Harvey and Wheeler (who only threw 100 innings) were the only starters on the Mets with an ERA+ north of 100.

 

[Chef99]

I would expect Wright to say nothing less, and he should be touting how he thinks they can win, and win big this year.

I however do not share his feelings, thinking that 80 wins would be more realistic.

This does not mean I would be happy, but it is a realistic outlook.

 

[Chef99]

I would take the Pirates offense over the Mets' easily. And even if they had a healthy Harvey, it's still not as good as the '13 Pirates staff. Harvey and Wheeler (who only threw 100 innings) were the only starters on the Mets with an ERA+ north of 100.

Hard to argue that point. The Mets are building a rock solid pitching staff (as the Pirates have already done), but that will need a year or two to come together.

 

[navamind]

Hard to argue that point. The Mets are building a rock solid pitching staff (as the Pirates have already done), but that will need a year or two to come together.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a bad rotation by any means (even without Harvey). Wheeler has upside and Gee and Niese are still pretty young. They're not gonna be stars, but I can see them being good mid-rotation starters. Niese was hurt last year, but he did pitch pretty well coming off the DL (3.00 ERA, 56/15 K/BB, 67 hits allowed, 66 innings in 10 post-ASB starts).