WASHINGTON — Hours before the Mets began their biggest series of 2015 against the Washington Nationals on Monday, General Manager Sandy Alderson met with the ace pitcher Matt Harvey and outlined a compromise plan designed to keep Harvey as a viable, if less active, member of the starting rotation in the season’s final weeks.
Whether Alderson’s formula passes muster with Scott Boras, Harvey’s forceful agent, remains to be seen.
But if both sides agree on the plan and it essentially gets the blessing of Dr. James Andrews, the orthopedic surgeon who performed Tommy John surgery on Harvey’s pitching arm in 2013, the Mets may be able to defuse a controversy that engulfed them this past weekend even as their division lead over the Nationals was shrinking to four games.