MLB: Former All-Star about to make a comeback?

David Wright is only one step away from returning to MLB. The New York Mets sent him to the Triple-A team in Las Vegas as part of his rehab assignment. However, whether he will take the final step back remains questionable.

Throughout the summer, Wright has been working on his comeback after back, neck and shoulder surgery. After playing for Single-A St. Lucie, Wright went to the Las Vegas 51s.

However, Assistant General Manager John Ricco stated on Tuesday that Wright had done neither “quantitatively nor qualitatively” enough to return to the MLB. “It’s unrealistic to think that we’ll activate it sometime soon, when you see what it has shown at this point,” Ricco said.

In ten games for St. Lucie, Wright beat .188 with a .454 OPS. In his last five games, however, Wright improved, beating 6-18 with a double and no strikeout.

“Right now we’re focusing on what he’s been like in Las Vegas for the last couple of days,” Ricco said. The Triple-A season ends next Monday. “And then we’ll have more discussions about what the rest of the year will be like for Wright.”

The options after the end of the season in Las Vegas are a callup to the MLB or even more workouts in Florida, where Wright could at least no longer collect game practice.

Wright last played in the MLB in the summer of 2016 and then suffered numerous injuries after he was diagnosed with spinal stenosis, a degenerative disease of the spine.

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