CHICAGO — Before the Mets ever made it to October, Matt Harvey’s agent, the visible and vocal Scott Boras, had already made his concerns known about how many innings his client might end up pitching this season, his first after having Tommy John surgery.
From Boras’s point of view, anything more than 180 innings, which was roughly the number Harvey pitched in 2013, the year he was hurt, was a danger zone.
Boras’s remarks set off some sniping between him and the Mets, and for a while, Harvey was caught in the crossfire, until he made it clear to the team and its many anxious fans that he would keep pitching in the postseason for as long as the Mets were still playing.