NEW YORK -- New York Mets third baseman David Wright appears resigned to missing the remainder of this season, although he predicted his career is not over.
"I'm going to be out for an extended period of time. ... But I plan on coming back and being the player that I feel like I'm capable of being. We shall see," Wright said Friday at Citi Field, in his first public comments since undergoing surgery June 16 to repair what Wright said was a "significant disk rupture" in his neck.
Wright, 33, acknowledged he will lose about 5 percent of the range of motion in his neck because he required fusion in addition to a discectomy.