Jose Reyes wished David Wright good luck as the injured third baseman is headed down to Port St. Lucie for rehab.
Of course that had as much to do with keeping him entertained as it did with Wright’s rehab.
“There’s nothing to do there,” Reyes said he told him. “But get well soon because we need you here.”
Wright, who was diagnosed with a lower-back stress fracture more than a month ago, was cleared yesterday to start doing what GM Sandy Alderson termed “fuller baseball activity.”
A day after learning Ike Davis is three weeks from even running and could be facing season-ending ankle surgery, this was welcome news for the Mets. It snapped a recent string of bad injury news and puts the team in position to have Wright back in approximately three weeks.
“With all the blows we’ve taken the last six weeks, this is finally a positive,” Terry Collins said. “It’s really big news for us.”
“I feel great. Never been more excited to get to Port St. Lucie,” Wright said in an email to The Post last night. “One step closer to get back on the field.”
Wright has been on the DL since May 16 and has missed 36 games and counting. He will head to St. Lucie today.
“Right now I anticipate it’s going to be at least a couple of weeks, maybe three weeks, because he’s going to have to exercise, progress to full baseball activity and then play in [minor league rehab] games,” Alderson said. “We’re still talking about I think a conceivably several-week process. But it is good news from the standpoint that he has been given the green light.”
Alderson said Wright must “get looser and sort of reintroduce those muscles” before he starts swinging or doing any extensive baseball activities.
“That’s a several-day, maybe a week process,” Alderson said. “And then you’re talking about batting practice and a whole host of other truly baseball activities before playing in a game. This still could be some period of time.”
The Mets open the second half of their season three weeks from today, with the start of a series against the Phillies at Citi Field. Wright could be back for that series, which starts July 15, but returning later in July seems more likely.
— Additional reporting by Dan Martin
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