The Mets insist the six-man rotation is about more than protecting Matt Harvey.
They also want to throttle back on 42-year-old Bartolo Colon, recognize that neither Jacob deGrom nor Noah Syndergaard has ever pitched a full major league season, and even prep for having Steve Matz step into a forum in which his innings can be better regulated.
I get it. Still, this is mostly about Harvey.
Which is why I don’t completely get it.
Harvey is a client of Scott Boras, who is renowned for taking his best clients to free agency to seek peak market value.