Matt Harvey to have start skipped — Mets News

The Mets made official on Friday that Harvey would skip his scheduled start on Sunday with Logan Verrett pitching instead. “(Coors Field is) a tough place to pitch for anybody.

More than anything, Collins just sounded relieved.

“I’m exhausted of talking about it”, Collins said.

The New York Mets placed struggling right-hander Bobby Parnell on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with right shoulder tendinitis. But Matz is likely to need two more minor-league starts, the next one coming at Double-A Binghamton, and the Mets wanted to skip Harvey before September.

“We are going to hold him back”. “If we’re going to do it, let’s do it right now”.

The risk is that taking away a start from Harvey will ultimately cost the Mets a spot in the postseason.

The organization wants to cap the right-hander’s innings at 190 after he missed the entire 2014 season following Tommy John surgery.

This late in August, however, there is a sense of inevitably. Harvey has thrown 154 innings this season, well on his way to the “soft” ceiling that GM Sandy Alderson has set as a limit that is believed to be between 185-195 innings.

The first – and best – benefit of doing it today at Colorado is that if everything goes to plan, it’s out of the way and Harvey can be used on regular rest and with no limitations down the stretch.

The team has used a six-man rotation at times this season, and has tentative plans to use on in September, as a way to get Harvey and other members of the pitching staff additional rest. I told them I was completely on board with whatever they want to do. “I just kind of preferred it would be sooner rather than later”. He has a 0.43 ERA in 21 innings over three starts in August. He suggested that his comfort level from already having worked with catcher Travis d’Arnaudwill aid him, as opposed to if he had been called up from the minors to make his debut asa starter.

“I think it’s a good time”, Harvey said. “It did affect me a little bit”, Colon, speaking through a translator, said of his wrist, which was badly swollen.

If the Rockies beat up Verrett, that might not be true for the Mets.

The Mets already have a stellar rotation featuring Jacob DeGrom, Harvey, Bartolo Colon, Noah Syndergaard, and Jonathan Niese. There is some risk to skipping one of Harvey’s starts, but it’s a necessary move that also has the potential to reward the Mets down the line. “I don’t know that the radar readings were as high”, Harvey said about arm fatigue.