This struck me as eerie.

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Please, David, we beg you

don’t grow the stache.

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by CTRefJay on Dec 29, 2011 8:32 PM EST reply actions

Mattingly spent his whole career with good and bad Yankees teams

and DW will spend his career with good and bad Mets teams, and that’s just how it will be.

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by piazza62 on Dec 29, 2011 8:34 PM EST reply actions

David Wright will buck Mattingly’s example, and will have a season where he tacks on additional WAR to his career accumulations, and not stay stagnant or actually decrease from them (can’t tell, and I don’t really care enough about Mattingly’s career to go to Fangraphs and look it up). Even if he’s the same exact player he has been since 2009, the fact that he will be (presumably) healthy, and the fact that the walls will be moved to be more conducive to his type of hitting should net him some positive WAR.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 29, 2011 8:46 PM EST reply actions

For some reason, I think DW has 3-4 more 4+ WAR seasons in him

He’ll be a better player than Mattingly after all is said and done

by nerfan on Dec 29, 2011 9:21 PM EST up reply actions

If he becomes a permanent 2-4 WAR player

and plays for another ten years or so, I wonder how his HoF chances will look. He’s been worth 39.3 WAR so far in his career, and if he accrues another 20-40 WAR, that’ll leave him around 60-80 WAR for his career. Looking at contemporary third basemen from the Live Ball Era, Mike Schmidt accrued 110.5 WAR over the course of his career, Eddie Matthews 107.2 WAR, Wade Boggs 94.8 WAR, Brooks Robinson 94.6 WAR, Paul Molitor 75.2 WAR, George Kell 43.4 WAR, Pie Traynor 42.2 WAR, and Freddie Lindstrom 34.4 WAR.

An interesting topic I might expand into a FanPost. I honestly am not sure, as he’d be a lot better than the guys lower on the list, but wouldn’t be up to par of the more contemporary third basemen who have been enshrined.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 29, 2011 10:31 PM EST up reply actions

It depends how he is for the rest of his career

He’d probably be closer to Ron Santo (79.3), Scott Rolen (73.9), Graig Nettles (71.8), Dick Allen (67.9) or Buddy Bell (66.6), any of which you can make an argument for, but only Santo and maybe Rolen one day is in the hall.

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by piazza62 on Dec 30, 2011 12:10 AM EST up reply actions

WAR is for losers

show me the graph of their pinstripes

by ZZPops on Dec 30, 2011 10:42 AM EST reply actions

And make sure

you sort it by the most important category--RINGZ!

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by Steve Schreiber on Dec 30, 2011 2:34 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Wright has played in more postseason series than Mattingly

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by piazza62 on Dec 30, 2011 5:14 PM EST up reply actions

He doesn't have the Ringz!

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 30, 2011 6:05 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Neither does Mattingly

You almost feel bad for the guy (I said almost), he was essentially the face of the Steinbrenner-driven plummet into the Andy Hawkins-Roberto Kelly world of oblivion.

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by piazza62 on Dec 30, 2011 7:56 PM EST up reply actions