Since Matt Harvey’s season-ending injury the Mets have made six moves to add pitchers to the roster. The list starts with the maddening Daisuke Matsuzaka and continues with Robert Carson, Vic Black, Tim Byrdak, Sean Henn and Frank Francisco. MetsBlog reports the team is likely to add Greg Burke and Aaron Harang in the near future.

Five of the six pitchers who were promoted to New York had to be added to the 40-man roster, as will Harang. That makes it that much more exasperating when you consider why they didn’t add – or plan to add – Darin Gorski. But as much as that decision baffles me, there’s a move that’s been made that infuriates me.

At no point this year should the Mets have rewarded Francisco with a position in the majors.

When the Mets signed Francisco, I was in favor of the decision. When he pitched poorly to start off 2012, I thought Terry Collins made the right decision to stick with Francisco as his closer. And just when it seemed like Francisco was ready to take off, he got hurt.

As we all know, pitchers get hurt. Then Francisco took what appeared to be a long time to recover from his injury. When he did come back last August, he didn’t pitch particularly well before shutting it down in mid-September.

The injury lingered and so did Francisco in his “quest” to return to the active list. He lost his closer’s job and along with it the desire to return to the majors. And if that wasn’t bad enough, Andy Martino reported in the Daily News that Jenrry Mejia, “had Frank Francisco advising him to stay in Port St. Lucie and collect his big league D.L. money, rather than work to return and be optioned to the minors.”

Insubordination should not be tolerated in any way, shape or form.

The Mets should have activated Francisco from the disabled list and cut him. People always wonder what kind of message various moves will send to other players. Yet, no one is saying that in this case. It boggles my mind. In general, I am pro player. But the bottom line is that you cannot let the inmates run the asylum.

The Mets need pitching to make it through down the stretch. But they would be better served promoting someone from one of their three rookie league franchises before letting Francisco wear their uniform again. It’s a disgrace.

The only thing worse is the continued bypassing of Gorski.

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