Over the past few days, Mets Manager Terry Collins had a feeling it would come to this — that neck surgery to repair David Wright’s herniated disk was inevitable and would be one more blow for the team’s cornerstone third baseman.
On Thursday, Collins’s apprehensions proved to be accurate, with the Mets announcing that their 33-year-old captain would have surgery, which was performed later in the day, with the operation done in California by Dr. Robert Watkins, an orthopedic spine surgeon. Wright had been sidelined since May 28, and the surgery could keep him out the rest of the season.