Mets GM says Wright’s ‘future is independent of [team’s] perfomance’ – m.NYPOST.com

“I think that his future is independent of club performance,” Alderson said at the Mets spring training complex Saturday. “There are certain decisions that one takes that are a function of where a team is at a particular time and so forth, but if there’s anybody on the team whose performance and future is independent of clubs performance, I think it’s David’s.”

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David Wright is never ever going anywhere.

Cardboard momentos of “The Kid” « Paul’s Random Baseball Stuff

Back in 1988, Baseball Card Magazine printed a complete (at the time) checklist of Gary Carter‘s baseball cards… and I decided to try to collect them all. His rookie cards – particularly the Topps mini one – were pricey and I didn’t get them until Carter’s playing career was nearly over. But at the time he retired, I had just about every Carter baseball card made.

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