Mets third baseman David Wright is still hopeful that Jose Reyes will be his teammate when the 2012 season begins. However, the realist in Wright said, "If Jose goes, anybody can go." While Reyes is one of the top available players in this free-agent market, Wright is experiencing the novelty of hearing his name around the trade rumor mill. "I don't think it surprised me," Wright said of recent rumors. "From very early on, playing in New York, you realize you try to control the things you can try to control. I have no control over that. As much as I enjoy playing here, as much as I've like to be here from beginning to end, you know that's not always the case. Sometimes it doesn't work out the way you plan for it to work out. "But I've been in Virginia for most of the [offseason], so I guess it kind of shelters me from a lot of the rumors and just the whirlwind, day in, day out. You kind of hear about it. You get some text messages from buddies about different things. But for the most part, I'm not into it on a daily basis saying, 'I'm going here. I'm going there. I'm going to be traded. I'm not going to be traded. Because you'll drive yourself crazy if you sit there and you try to figure out everything that's reported or everything that's rumored to be. ... My gut feeling, I'm planning on being the third baseman for the New York Mets next year."