MIAMI — The Mets have a plan with Matt Harvey and are sticking to it.
Despite agent Scott Boras’ concerns about Harvey pitching beyond 180 innings this year and potentially into the postseason, team brass will not alter its blueprint for the stud right-hander in his return from Tommy John surgery.
According to assistant general manager John Ricco, the Mets anticipate using Harvey for 3-4 more starts — including Tuesday in Washington — and then letting him pitch in the playoffs, should the Mets get there.
But that is all contingent on how Harvey feels physically.
“We’ve consulted with Matt all the way through, and we will continue to do that,” Ricco said before the Mets faced the Marlins on Friday. “I don’t think anything will change.”
Harvey, who has pitched 166 1/3 innings, is expected to skip a start later in the month and then pitch as part of a six-man rotation. Such a plan implemented by general manager Sandy Alderson and manager Terry Collins likely would put Harvey around 190 innings for the regular season. The Mets skipped a Harvey start in Colorado on Aug. 23 with the idea of curtailing his workload.
Boras told The Post’s Joel Sherman the Mets would be risking Harvey’s surgically repaired right elbow by letting him surpass 180 innings and then pitch in the postseason.
“I have no dispute with the Mets,” Boras said. “I am telling them what the medical people say. Sandy is acting surprised now. But, Sandy, I am doing the work for the client, not the Mets. By the way, I am not telling anyone anything. This is what the doctors are saying. I am simply delivering a message.”
But Ricco said there has been constant communication between the Mets and Dr. James Andrews – who performed the surgery on Harvey in October 2013 – with team medical director Dr. David Altchek also involved in discussions.
Ricco said the Mets have not received any kind of “hard” innings cap from medical personnel involved in the discussions about Harvey.
“It’s not my experience that you have a doctor mandating [innings] for a pitcher,” Ricco said.
“I am not going to question [Boras], what he said. All I know is we’re very comfortable with the way we’ve set this plan out and the process we’re following, and it has been in consultation with the medical people.”
Boras first contacted the Mets in August with concerns about Harvey’s innings workload, according to a source, but Alderson wasn’t interested in changing the plan.
“Sandy is not going to be dictated by anyone,” said a person with knowledge of the conversations.
It is unlikely Boras and the players’ union would have grounds for a grievance against the Mets if Harvey surpasses 180 innings, but the super-agent is known to make noise on such issues.
Boras pushed for the Nationals to limit his client Stephen Strasburg’s innings in 2012 and ultimately got the team to relent, shutting down the right-hander with three weeks remaining in the regular season. But a strong Nationals team, minus Strasburg, lost to the Cardinals in the NLDS, and the franchise has lost its mojo since.
“Much like Strasburg, Matt wants to pitch,” Boras said. “Strasburg’s arm is healthy, and he says his arm has never felt better. You want to side on the side of medical well being.”
Harvey suffered from dehydration during his start against the Phillies on Wednesday and remained in New York for treatment. He was expected to rejoin the Mets in time for Friday’s first pitch.
Ricco was asked if Harvey might reach a point — should the Mets advance deep into the postseason — when he needs to be shut down.
“The way Sandy has termed it, a reasonable workload in the playoffs,” Ricco said. “I don’t see us pushing the limits there and we haven’t done that with him all year.”