Harvelous Gets MRI

[Centerfield]

I think this is the right move.

Move back to respectability in 2014 with some new faces. Call up Syndegaard and Montero.

Bring back Harvey in 2015. Scorch the competition in a way that makes the 86'ers look like pansies.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

It feels right. IIRC, Wainwright isn't the only rehab "success" that ended up having TJ surgery (Kerry Wood and Erik Bedard, to name two).

[TransMonk]

Does anyone else think this may have been the decision they had made since the beginning of the injury but that the Mets may have wanted to wait until just after the season ended to announce it? There weren't that many more fannies in seats during the last month of 2013, but they're could have been a few extra thinking that a truly competitive Mets team was just right around the corner.

Why give the impression that they are going to let him finish trying the rehab, but then don't? If this is truly the best decision (and I don't disagree that it is), wouldn't having the surgery over a month ago have been better than wasting potential post-surgery rehab time?

Is this traditionally a decision that is solely left to the pitcher?

[seawolf17]

I don't see any benefit, financially, to them waiting. As it sits now, we're definitely looking at '15. If he had it a month ago, then maybe there's hope for the end of next season that he'll be back for a potential pennant run. If anything, it hurts them to wait.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

There's no financial benefit to the wait; there is a potential, more ineffable benefit, though-- he's free to rehab at a pace conducive to his longterm career-health without the pressure of he-may-be-back-by-September hanging overhead.