For the majority of his time with the news media Sunday morning, Yankees Manager Joe Girardi was asked about innings limits — the current baseball buzz resulting from the tiff between, on one side, Mets pitcher Matt Harvey and his agent, Scott Boras, and on the other, the Mets’ front office over how often Harvey will be used over the season’s final weeks.
A similar debate could have broken out in the Bronx, if not for injuries earlier this season to Masahiro Tanaka and Michael Pineda, two players whose output the Yankees wanted to monitor entering the season.