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Alderson hasn't 'given up hope' of Wright playing this season

Brad Penner / USA TODAY Sports

David Wright's long journey back to the diamond will move forward another step this week.

The New York Mets star infielder has been sidelined all season by a debilitating shoulder impingement as well as discomfort in his lower back, though general manager Sandy Alderson revealed the 34-year-old will finally resume baseball activities Wednesday, according to the Daily News' Kristie Ackert.

But while resuming activity is a small step in a long, enduring process for the infielder, Alderson is adamant the team's longtime captain will still make his return this season, despite myriad injuries limiting him in recent years.

"I am realistically expecting to see him this year. I don't have any real way of projecting a timetable. I think we're going to be patient about that," Alderson said. "But we certainly haven't given up hope of seeing him here in 2017 by any means."

Wright has been hampered by injuries the past two seasons, playing just 75 games since the beginning of 2015. He was diagnosed with spinal stenosis - an abnormal narrowing of the spinal canal - in 2015, before undergoing neck surgery to repair a herniated disc in 2016.

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