三年前的 Strasburg 關機門
三年後, 出現了 ver 2.0 的情形. 這次是 Matt Harvey.
簡單來說, Scott Boras (又是他, 也是 Strasburg 的經紀人)
"公開表示" 根據 James Andrews 和另一位醫師的意見,
今年剛從 Tommy John 復原的 Matt Harvey, 不應該丟超過 180 局
而 Matt Harvey 到目前已經丟了 166.1 局
大家都知道 Mets 目前的狀況, 以及很有可能有季後賽要打
Mets GM Sandy Alderson 表示: 我們了解, 但我們也問過 Andrews, 而 Boras 根本亂講
Mets asst. GM John Ricco: 190 局, 然後季後賽給他 "合理的工作量"
難得 Mets 有機會打季後賽 (甚至衝擊冠軍)
如今卻碰上少了一個 Game 1 和 Game 7 的先發的可能
但是為了保護未來的大合約和健康著想, 這也沒錯.
關? 還是不關?
Scott Boras and the Mets Disagree About Matt Harvey's Innings Limit
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MIAMI — Over the winter, as the Mets prepared for Matt Harvey’s first
season back from Tommy John surgery, General Manager Sandy Alderson and Scott
Boras, Harvey’s agent, discussed how the Mets would handle Harvey’s health.
Boras has had other high-profile clients go through the surgery and indicated
to Alderson that he wanted to follow the guidance of Dr. James Andrews, the
renowned orthopedic surgeon who performed Harvey’s surgery. Boras used as an
example Stephen Strasburg, another of his clients. The Washington Nationals
shut Strasburg down late in the 2012 season and kept him out of the
postseason because he had reached his innings limit as a former Tommy John
patient. It was a decision that was debated and scrutinized around the game.
“I told him as the doctors go along, there’s going to be an innings limit,
Boras said Friday as he recounted the conversation with Alderson. “He goes,
‘We understand there’s an innings limit.’ ”
But five months into the season, a sharp disagreement has emerged over that
limit, how much Harvey should pitch in the final month of the campaign and
whether he should pitch in the postseason, which the Mets are poised to make
for the first time in nearly a decade.
While the Mets are likely to have the final say in the matter, the dispute
could have repercussions, perhaps souring their relationship with the most
powerful agent in baseball and perhaps making it even harder to re-sign
Harvey when he becomes a free agent in several years.
On Friday, after word of the disagreement was first reported by Jon Heyman on
CBSSports.com, Boras went on something of a media blitz, contending that
Andrews had recently recommended that Harvey’s innings be capped at 180 for
the year — he is already at 1661/3 — and that if the Mets did not abide by
the doctor’s wishes they would, in Boras’s words, be putting one of their
star pitchers in “peril.”
“I’m not saying what the Mets can or can’t do,” Boras said in a phone
interview. “That’s not my job. I’m letting them know what the medical
opinion is, and that’s it. And when they receive notice of the medical
opinion, who’s accountable for that?”
Despite Boras’s contention that 180 innings should be the limit, which would
effectively keep Harvey out of the postseason and limit him the rest of this
month, the Mets gave no sign on Friday that they would abide by Boras’s
wishes.