I’m a little sleepy, but I thought this was neat. Mike Schmidt, the best baseball player I ever saw (note I didn’t qualify position) thinks David Wright is a Hall of Famer.
The Daily News has the whole thing here.
Schmidt says:
“I think you’ve got yourself a future Hall of Famer there on the Mets.”
“From a baseball standpoint, he seems way beyond his years,” Schmidt said. “Hitting-wise, he’s your prototypical good modern generation hitter in that he stays inside the ball. In my day, we hit around the ball – pulled the ball more. It’s impressive to me he creates the production he does as a righthanded hitter, seeing a lot of righthanded pitchers, the tough relievers, the matchups he gets.
“Back in our day, you’d compare him to a (Steve) Garvey or heck, even a Roberto Clemente-type hitter where he uses the whole field, hits around .300, can hit you some home runs, break up a game. He’s a good solid RBI guy – what did he have last year, 128 (actually 124). I think my best year was in the low 120s (121 in 1980), so even last year he had more than I ever had.”
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