MIAMI — Over the winter, as the Mets prepared for Matt Harvey’s first season back from Tommy John surgery, Sandy Alderson, the team’s general manager, and Scott Boras, Harvey’s agent, had a general conservation about how the Mets would handle Harvey’s health.
Boras, who has had several high-profile clients go through the surgery, indicated to Alderson, then, that he wanted to follow the orders of Dr. James Andrews, the renowned orthopedic surgeon who performed Harvey’s surgery. Boras brought up Stephen Strasburg as an example. Strasburg is a client of his who was shut down in the 2012 season and then sat out the postseason because he had reached his innings limit.