Instead of making seminal starts, Matt Harvey will make a single start the rest of September.
This comes after a saga of comments and conflicting statements, after which they arrived at this absurdity — one more appearance until the playoffs, playing not to lose until it’s time to play to win.
And it will fail, because these things always do.
It’s hard to stir this soup of agents, players, surgeons and Sandy Alderson. Each seems to have a contrasting message. Harvey is suspended between instinct and impulse, between protection, promotion, and provocation.