PORT ST. LUCIE — What plan?
After meeting with Mets officials and medical personnel on Wednesday to discuss how his spinal stenosis will be handled this season, David Wright insisted there is no blueprint he and manager Terry Collins can follow.
“Everybody keeps asking about a plan,” Wright said. “You can’t have a plan.”
Previously, general manager Sandy Alderson suggested Wright’s ceiling should be about 130 games. But the third baseman said that number was not concrete, and how he feels will dictate how much he should play.
“A ‘plan’ is an incorrect word for what’s going on, it just has to be more communication,” Wright said. “They want to try to leave it more on me to see how I feel.”
But Wright acknowledged the benefit of taking proactive measures — in the form of days off even when his back is feeling good — instead of waiting until he incurs soreness.
Wright’s Grapefruit League workload likely will be reduced, as will the number of swings and grounders he takes on a daily basis.
“We set down the fact, the only thing we have to consider is making sure he gets ready,” Collins said. “That did not include perhaps giving him any particular number of at-bats in spring training, but the process involved it’s going to take, when he gets in games here in spring training, he is 100 percent ready to go.
“Then monitoring that process when he gets in the games to make sure he gets the proper number of at-bats to get himself ready.”
A settlement was reached on Hansel Robles’ three-game suspension from last season. The reliever will serve a two-game suspension beginning April 3 in Kansas City.
Ruben Tejada has been given one more day of service as part of an arbitration-case settlement, allowing him to become a free agent after this season. The shortstop goes from four years, 171 days of service to five years.
Jacob deGrom threw a bullpen session and reported no discomfort in his left groin. The right-hander had skipped his previous mound session as a precaution.
Position players will undergo physicals on Thursday, a day before the team’s first full-squad workout of the spring.
— Additional reporting by Ken Davidoff