So David Wright flew to California with a bad back not so much to get a another medical opinion as get physical therapy?
That’s not quite like putting Ryan Church on a cross-country flight with a concussion, as the Mets once did to famously poor results, but it does tell you how desperately Wright and the ballclub are looking for someone to wave a magic wand and make his back problem disappear.
GM Sandy Alderson, in fact, invoked a similar vision on Monday in announcing that Wright is in Los Angeles, partly to see back specialist Robert Watkins but more so to work with the doctor’s physical therapists “to see if there are some magic fingers somewhere in California.