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David Wright

David Allen Wright

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: December 20, 1982 in Norfolk, VA
High School: Hickory HS (Chesapeake, VA)
Drafted
by the New York Mets in the 1st round (38th pick) of the 2001 amateur draft.
Signed July 12, 2001. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 21, 2004 (Age 21)
Team: Mets 2004-2012
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2020, 14 yrs/$192M (07-20) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 8.075, Free Agent: 2021 [*], Agents: ACES [*]
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All-Time Rank (among batters): #227. Brian Giles… #228. Cupid Childs… #229. Rusty Staub… #230. DAVID WRIGHT… #231. Tony Fernandez… #232. Maury Wills… #233. George Foster… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2004 21 NYM NL 69 283 263 41 77 17 1 14 40 6 0 14 40 .293 .332 .525 .857 119 138 7 3 0 3 0 5
2005 22 NYM NL 160 657 575 99 176 42 1 27 102 17 7 72 113 .306 .388 .523 .912 140 301 16 7 0 3 2 *5 MVP-19
2006 23 NYM NL 154 661 582 96 181 40 5 26 116 20 5 66 113 .311 .381 .531 .912 133 309 15 5 0 8 13 *5/D AS,MVP-9
2007 24 NYM NL 160 711 604 113 196 42 1 30 107 34 5 94 115 .325 .416 .546 .963 149 330 14 6 0 7 6 *5 AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2008 25 NYM NL 160 736 626 115 189 42 2 33 124 15 5 94 118 .302 .390 .534 .924 142 334 15 4 0 11 5 *5/D AS,MVP-7,GG,SS
2009 26 NYM NL 144 618 535 88 164 39 3 10 72 27 9 74 140 .307 .390 .447 .837 124 239 16 3 0 6 8 *5 AS
2010 27 NYM NL 157 670 587 87 166 36 3 29 103 19 11 69 161 .283 .354 .503 .856 131 295 12 2 0 12 9 *5/D AS,MVP-24
2011 28 NYM NL 102 447 389 60 99 23 1 14 61 13 2 52 97 .254 .345 .427 .771 115 166 5 3 0 3 4 5/6
2012 29 NYM NL 156 670 581 91 178 41 2 21 93 15 10 81 112 .306 .391 .492 .883 143 286 15 3 0 5 16 *5/6 AS,MVP-6
9 Yrs 1262 5453 4742 790 1426 322 19 204 818 166 54 616 1009 .301 .381 .506 .887 135 2398 115 36 0 58 63
162 Game Avg. 162 700 609 101 183 41 2 26 105 21 7 79 130 .301 .381 .506 .887 135 308 15 5 0 7 8

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2004 21 NYM NL 69 283 6 2 -1 4 1 13 1.3 8 21 2.0 .519 .508 1.6 0.5 17 5
2005 22 NYM NL 160 657 38 1 -2 -11 2 28 2.8 18 46 4.5 .517 .517 5.7 -0.9 57 $322,500 *5 MVP-19
2006 23 NYM NL 154 661 26 3 -2 -8 2 22 2.1 18 39 3.8 .514 .513 4.6 -0.6 47 $374,000 *5/D AS,MVP-9
2007 24 NYM NL 160 711 48 4 -1 12 2 64 6.3 19 84 8.1 .539 .539 7.0 1.4 72 $1,250,000 *5 AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2008 25 NYM NL 160 736 43 1 -2 5 2 49 4.8 20 69 6.7 .530 .530 6.2 0.7 64 $5,250,000 *5/D AS,MVP-7,GG,SS
2009 26 NYM NL 144 618 20 6 -1 -14 2 12 1.3 17 29 2.9 .509 .508 4.3 -1.2 43 $7,750,000 *5 AS
2010 27 NYM NL 157 670 22 -2 -1 -14 2 8 0.8 18 26 2.5 .505 .505 4.0 -1.3 40 $10,250,000 *5/D AS,MVP-24
2011 28 NYM NL 102 447 9 1 1 -6 1 6 0.7 12 18 1.9 .507 .504 2.5 -0.5 24 $14,250,000 5/6
2012 29 NYM NL 156 670 30 -2 -1 16 2 45 4.9 19 64 6.7 .531 .530 4.9 2.1 48 $15,000,000 *5/6 AS,MVP-6
9 Seasons 1262 5453 242 13 -8 -16 16 247 24.9 148 396 39.1 .520 .517 40.8 0.3 412 $54,446,500

Postseason Batting

Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2006 23 NYM NL NLDS LAD W 3 13 12 1 4 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 4 .333 .385 .500 .885 6 0 0 0 0 0
2006 23 NYM NL NLCS STL L 7 29 25 2 4 1 0 1 2 0 0 4 4 .160 .276 .320 .596 8 0 0 0 0 1
1 Yr (2 Series) 10 42 37 3 8 3 0 1 6 0 0 5 8 .216 .310 .378 .688 14 0 0 0 0 1
1 NLDS 3 13 12 1 4 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 4 .333 .385 .500 .885 6 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 7 29 25 2 4 1 0 1 2 0 0 4 4 .160 .276 .320 .596 8 0 0 0 0 1

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2004 NYM NL 21 3B 69 68 67 603.2 190 39 140 11 10 .942 0 4 1 8 2.67 2.59 .956 2.76 2.75
2005 NYM NL 22 3B 160 160 153 1404.1 461 101 336 24 23 .948 -9 -11 -8 -9 2.80 2.73 .958 2.77 2.74 MVP-19
2006 NYM NL 23 3B 153 153 146 1365.1 414 107 288 19 31 .954 -8 -8 -7 -7 2.60 2.58 .954 2.70 2.68 AS,MVP-9
2006 NYM NL 23 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-9
2007 NYM NL 24 3B 159 159 155 1418.1 452 107 324 21 24 .954 3 12 3 10 2.73 2.71 .954 2.68 2.67 AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2008 NYM NL 25 3B 159 159 157 1433.1 416 114 286 16 21 .962 -7 5 -6 4 2.51 2.52 .956 2.60 2.58 AS,MVP-7,GG,SS
2008 NYM NL 25 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-7,GG,SS
2009 NYM NL 26 3B 142 142 135 1232.0 361 119 224 18 19 .950 -18 -14 -18 -14 2.51 2.42 .957 2.57 2.55 AS
2010 NYM NL 27 3B 155 155 147 1373.0 451 110 321 20 34 .956 -7 -14 -6 -12 2.83 2.78 .951 2.54 2.52 AS,MVP-24
2010 NYM NL 27 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-24
2011 NYM NL 28 3B 101 101 96 893.2 267 68 180 19 9 .929 -10 -6 -14 -8 2.50 2.46 .954 2.53 2.53
2011 NYM NL 28 SS 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 0 4.50 1.00 .970 4.50 4.40
2012 NYM NL 29 3B 155 155 146 1348.1 384 107 267 10 20 .974 8 16 8 14 2.50 2.41 .952 2.45 2.42 AS,MVP-6
2012 NYM NL 29 SS 1 0 0 6.0 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 -0 0 -10 0 3.00 2.00 .970 4.20 4.20 AS,MVP-6
9 Seasons 3B 1253 1252 1202 11072.0 3396 872 2366 158 191 .953 -48 -16 -5 -1 2.63 2.58 .955 2.62 2.60
2 Seasons SS 2 0 0 8.0 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 -0 0 -8 0 3.38 1.50 .970 4.27 4.30
9 Seasons TOT 1255 1252 1202 11080.0 3399 873 2368 158 191 .954 -48 -16 -5 -1 2.63 2.58 .955 2.62 2.60
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2006 (3B)
2007 (3B)
2008 *
2009 (3B)
2010 (3B)
2012 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2005 NL (19, 4%)
2006 NL (9, 16%)
2007 NL (4, 41%)
2008 NL (7, 26%)
2010 NL (24, 1%)
2012 NL (6, 19%)
1.07 Career Shares (228th)

Gold Gloves
2007 NL (3B)
2008 NL (3B)
All multiple winners

Silver Sluggers
2007 NL (3B)
2008 NL (3B)
All multiple winners

Wins Above Replacements c a p y
2007 NL  8.1 (2nd)
2008 NL  6.7 (6th)
2012 NL  6.7 (4th)
Active  39.1 (35th)

WAR Position Playerss c a p y
2007 NL  8.1 (2nd)
2008 NL  6.7 (4th)
2012 NL  6.7 (4th)
Active  39.1 (25th)

Offensive WARs c a p y
2005 NL  5.7 (4th)
2007 NL  7.0 (1st)
2008 NL  6.2 (3rd)
2012 NL  4.9 (5th)
Active  40.8 (19th)
Career  40.8 (228th)

Defensive WARs c a p y
2012 NL  2.1 (5th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2005 NL  .306 (9th)
2006 NL  .311 (10th)
2007 NL  .325 (7th)
2008 NL  .302 (10th)
2012 NL  .306 (9th)
Active  .301 (18th)
Career  .301 (198th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2007 NL  .416 (5th)
2008 NL  .390 (7th)
2012 NL  .391 (5th)
Active  .381 (18th)
Career  .381 (160th)

Slugging % s c a p y
Active  .506 (21st)
Career  .506 (84th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2007 NL  .963 (10th)
2008 NL  .924 (7th)
2012 NL  .883 (7th)
Active  .887 (20th)
Career  .887 (78th)

Games Played s c a p y
2005 NL  160 (7th)
2007 NL  160 (9th)
2008 NL  160 (5th)

At Bats s c a p y
2008 NL  626 (4th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2007 NL  711 (8th)
2008 NL  736 (2nd)
Active  5,453 (50th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
2007 NL  113 (5th)
2008 NL  115 (3rd)
Active  790 (41st)

Hits s c a p y
2005 NL  176 (10th)
2007 NL  196 (4th)
2008 NL  189 (2nd)
2012 NL  178 (8th)
Active  1,426 (44th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2005 NL  301 (7th)
2007 NL  330 (7th)
2008 NL  334 (3rd)
2010 NL  295 (10th)
2012 NL  286 (10th)
Active  2,398 (43rd)

Doubles s c a p y
2005 NL  42 (7th)
2008 NL  42 (7th)
2009 NL  39 (9th)
2012 NL  41 (6th)
Active  322 (40th)

Home Runs s c a p y
2008 NL  33 (9th)
Active  204 (40th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2005 NL  102 (10th)
2006 NL  116 (7th)
2007 NL  107 (9th)
2008 NL  124 (2nd)
2010 NL  103 (7th)
Active  818 (35th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2007 NL  94 (7th)
2008 NL  94 (5th)
2012 NL  81 (4th)
Active  616 (30th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2009 NL  140 (8th)
2010 NL  161 (7th)
Active  1,009 (42nd)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
2007 NL  34 (7th)
2009 NL  27 (6th)
Active  166 (30th)

Singles s c a p y
2007 NL  123 (10th)
2012 NL  114 (9th)
Active  881 (50th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2007 NL  149 (6th)
2008 NL  142 (6th)
2012 NL  143 (5th)
Active  135 (19th)
Career  135 (117th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2005 NL  117 (10th)
2007 NL  146 (2nd)
2008 NL  135 (4th)
2012 NL  111 (7th)
Active  936 (37th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2005 NL  35 (9th)
2007 NL  49 (5th)
2008 NL  42 (4th)
2012 NL  38 (6th)
Active  261 (17th)
Career  261 (166th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2005 NL  3.4 (9th)
2007 NL  4.5 (5th)
2008 NL  4.0 (4th)
2012 NL  3.8 (6th)
Active  24.8 (17th)
Career  24.8 (184th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2005 NL  70 (10th)
2008 NL  77 (7th)
2010 NL  68 (9th)
Active  545 (35th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2007 NL  296 (1st)
2008 NL  287 (2nd)
2012 NL  262 (4th)
Active  2,078 (40th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2007 NL  .742 (4th)
2008 NL  .698 (8th)
2012 NL  .683 (9th)
Active  .669 (18th)
Career  .669 (138th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2006 NL  8 (5th)
2008 NL  11 (1st)
2010 NL  12 (1st)
Active  58 (26th)
Career  58 (228th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2006 NL  13 (9th)
2012 NL  16 (2nd)
Active  63 (32nd)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
2010 NL  11 (5th)
2012 NL  10 (7th)
Active  54 (31st)

SB % s c a p y
2006 NL  80.00 (10th)
2007 NL  87.18 (10th)
Career  75.46 (142nd)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2005 NL  20.9 (5th)
2006 NL  22.6 (8th)
2007 NL  31.9 (3rd)
2010 NL  23.0 (6th)
Active  183.0 (15th)
Career  183.0 (105th)

AB per HR s c a p y
Career  23.2 (239th)

Outs Made s c a p y
2010 NL  456 (10th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)s c a p y
2005 NL  45.47 (8th)
2007 NL  45.33 (7th)
2008 NL  41.56 (7th)
2012 NL  38.49 (6th)
Active  282.95 (19th)
Career  282.95 (129th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
2006 NL  4.5 (7th)
2007 NL  4.2 (10th)
2008 NL  4.2 (7th)
2012 NL  4.0 (9th)
Active  27.3 (19th)
Career  27.3 (118th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)s c a p y
2007 NL  5.2 (4th)
2008 NL  5.4 (2nd)
Active  26.5 (20th)
Career  26.5 (124th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)s c a p y
2005 NL  4.4 (7th)
2007 NL  4.2 (7th)
2008 NL  4.0 (7th)
2012 NL  3.9 (6th)
Active  27.2 (19th)
Career  27.2 (135th)

Errors Committeds c a p y
2005 NL  24 (1st)
2010 NL  20 (3rd)
2011 NL  19 (5th)
Active  158 (12th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
2005 NL  160 (1st)
2007 NL  159 (2nd)
2008 NL  159 (1st)
2009 NL  142 (4th)
2010 NL  155 (2nd)
2012 NL  155 (2nd)
Active  1,253 (6th)
Career  1,253 (68th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
2006 NL  107 (5th)
2007 NL  107 (3rd)
2008 NL  114 (2nd)
2009 NL  119 (1st)
2010 NL  110 (1st)
2012 NL  107 (1st)
Active  872 (6th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
2005 NL  336 (1st)
2006 NL  288 (4th)
2007 NL  324 (2nd)
2008 NL  286 (1st)
2010 NL  321 (1st)
2012 NL  267 (3rd)
Active  2,366 (6th)
Career  2,366 (69th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2005 NL  24 (1st)
2006 NL  19 (4th)
2007 NL  21 (5th)
2009 NL  18 (3rd)
2010 NL  20 (1st)
2011 NL  19 (2nd)
Active  158 (5th)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
2005 NL  23 (4th)
2006 NL  31 (4th)
2007 NL  24 (5th)
2010 NL  34 (1st)
2012 NL  20 (4th)
Active  191 (9th)
Career  191 (75th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
2012 NL  8 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3Bs c a p y
2005 NL  2.80 (4th)
2010 NL  2.83 (4th)
Active  2.63 (9th)
Career  2.63 (81st)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
2005 NL  2.73 (2nd)
2010 NL  2.78 (2nd)
2011 NL  2.46 (5th)
2012 NL  2.41 (5th)
Active  2.58 (8th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
2012 NL  .974 (3rd)
Active  .953 (14th)

Youngest s c a p y
2004 NL  born 1982-12-20 (7th)

                           

Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 84 (281), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 76 (249), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 37 (197), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Third Base (28th), 39.1 career WAR/35.2 7yr-peak WAR/37.2 JAWS
Average HOF 3B (out of 12) = 64.9 career WAR/41.8 7yr-peak WAR/53.4 JAWS

Transactions

  • June 5, 2001: Drafted by the New York Mets in the 1st round (38th pick) of the 2001 amateur draft. Player signed July 12, 2001.
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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
200522New York Mets$322,500
200623New York Mets$374,000
200724New York Mets$1,250,000
200825New York Mets$5,250,000
200926New York Mets$7,750,000
201027New York Mets$10,250,000
201128New York Mets$14,250,000
201229New York Mets$15,000,000contracts
201330New York Mets$11,000,000
201431New York Mets$20,000,000
201532New York Mets$20,000,000
201633New York Mets$20,000,000
201734New York Mets$20,000,000
201835New York Mets$20,000,000
201936New York Mets$15,000,000
202037New York Mets$12,000,000
Earliest Free Agent: 2021
Career to date (may be incomplete)$54,446,500Does not include future salaries
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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