David Wright is my lucky pick

Something very strange happened to me during my fantasy baseball draft for this season. For the first time ever I actually got the number one pick. With the number one pick I took three time all-star David Wright. Yes, he of the golden boy looks and Virginia charm. Some in my league were shocked that I took Wright over A-rod or A-pu. But Wright is and will continue to be my guy, here are five reasons why.

1) Speed. Wright is a monster on the bases. With nineteen stolen bases, Wright has been among the NL league leaders all season. On a team that has lost Jose Reyes to injury, Wright has stepped it up in the stolen base department.

2) Leadership. When Carlos Delgado went down with a hip injury, Wright finally took his place as the leader of the New York Metropolitans. Many in the know have felt that Wright deferred to the veteran Delgado in regards to leadership of the team. With Delgado out, Wright has taken charge of the blue and orange.

(Side note, Wright played on an AAU team that also had MLB players Mark Reynolds, Justin Upton, B.J. Upton and Ryan Zimmerman. How stacked was that team?)

3) He is healthy. With this team, that is not such an easy thing. In fact Wright is the only reason the Mets are competitive at this point of the season.

4) They say defense wins championships. Well Wright has two gold gloves to his name. He won the coveted award in both 2007 and 2008. What is scary is that he still has a ton of room for improvement defensively. This is apparent in the nine errors that Wright has committed this season. Once Wright is able to stop air mailing the occasional throw to first, he will be mentioned with Brooks Robinson as one of the greatest defensive third basemen of all time.

5) .356, no kidding he is hitting .356, leading the NL in batting average, only Ichiro is better at .369.