Matt Harvey would be the top bullet point.
Mickey Callaway and Dave Eiland, the Mets’ first-year manager and pitching coach, came to the Mets with some serious credentials in the department of pitching makeovers. You don’t attain their level of success, particularly with the Indians’ and Royals’ modest payrolls, without fixing guys on the run.
Yet neither man has encountered a case quite like Harvey. Not someone who soared so high, nor someone who plummeted so low. And, in both instances, so publicly.
When Callaway announced the demotion of the struggling Harvey to the Mets’ bullpen on Saturday, he cited his work with Cleveland’s Trevor Bauer, Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar and Eiland’s work with Kansas City’s Danny Duffy.