With little else to play for outside of pride, the New York Mets plan to shut down ace Matt Harvey once he reaches 200 innings, this according to Mets.com:
"This year, 200 innings sits near the upper limit of what the Mets will allow Harvey to achieve. Though the organization has not revealed any hard numbers regarding a shutdown of its young ace, the working assumption is that they will not allow him to exceed last year’s total of 169 1/3 innings by much more than 30.Assuming Harvey continues to average seven innings per start, as he has up to this point, he will hit the 200-inning mark around the second week of September. That would prompt the Mets to shut him down with as many as three full weeks left in the season — a fate they could have delayed by roughly a week had Jeremy Hefner not suffered an elbow injury, forcing them to whittle their six-man rotation down to five.Harvey understands all that, and will ultimately accept it. But he also feels there is value in lasting through the end of September.“Obviously, I’m not going to be happy to miss any starts, but if it’s a week, I’m not going to look at it like I didn’t finish a full season,” Harvey said."
Harvey is currently sitting at 160 innings. That shouldn’t give Harvey more than maybe 6 or 7 starts which would effectively shut him down in mid-September.
Right in time for your fantasy championships, eh?