The Mets and Injuries

I have to agree with Mike Vaccaro on how the Mets should have handled Noah Syndergaard:

But it’s clear in retrospect that Alderson should have been the grownup in this situation, informed Syndergaard: “It’s that the MRI tube or the disabled list. Your choice.”

It’s hard to believe the GM wouldn’t have won in the court of public opinion on that one, and it would have sent a message that the Mets are done with their ages-old habit of tinkering with injuries that almost always — and we’re being generous adding the “almost” — cause maximum trouble.

Once upon a time Matt Harvey thought he knew better than the Mets brass and their doctors, too, and once upon a time it was Harvey who sat where Syndergaard now sits — king of the hill, top of the heap, impervious to the wishes of his bosses. Harvey paid a hard price for that hubris, and the humbler version of No. 33 that inhabits the Mets clubhouse now is proof of that.

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