Terry Collins thinks David Wright’s struggles at the plate are related to injuring his upper back/neck area making a diving tag on Houston’s Carlos Lee on April 19.

– Adam Rubin, ESPN.com.

Well that’s no good. If Wright’s hurt, he’s not saying anything about it, which is kind of his bag. He hasn’t been outright terrible mostly because he’s still walking a bunch; I was just sort of figuring it was a month-and-a-half of underwhelming performance, a sample-size blip type thing. But I suppose across the course of a 162-game season, minor injuries are often exactly the type of thing that create valleys in performance over smallish samples.

Wright apparently hates days off. But tomorrow, a day game after a night game with Ubaldo Jimenez on the mound, might be a nice day to get him one.