When Daisuke Matsuzaka was first posted, I wanted the Mets to win the bid for him. A few years ago I proposed a trade of down-on-their luck pitchers, with the Mets sending Oliver Perez to Boston for Matsuzaka. When they finally picked him off the scrap heap, I was generally in favor of the move.

But enough is enough. There’s no reason to subject either the fans or the other Mets players to another outing by Matsuzaka. In three starts with the Mets, the one-time star has allowed 15 ER in 12.1 IP and the aesthetics of his starts are 100 times worse. Keeping him around annoys the fan base, doesn’t thrill his fielders and kills the bullpen.

It’s hard to imagine the Mets giving Matsuzaka another start. They recently went dumpster diving again, this time to pick up Aaron Harang, who if memory serves they were interested in this past offseason.. Unfortunately, Harang looks as cooked as the man he would be replacing. With pitcher-friendly Safeco Field as his home park, Harang had a 5.76 ERA in 22 starts.

Innings limits preclude the Mets from calling up top prospects Rafael Montero and Noah Syndergaard. Jacob deGrom is maxed out on his innings and has an injury to boot. Seemingly there’s no internal candidate to promote.

But, the Mets do have a pitcher at Double-A who has been lights out since returning from an early-season injury, meaning that unlike the pitchers mentioned above, he is nowhere near his 150-inning cap.

Darin Gorski has pitched just 92.1 innings so far in 2013. But those innings have been fantastic, especially the numbers he’s posted in Double-A. With Binghamton, Gorski is 6-1 with a 1.83 ERA. And while he struggled with the gopher ball last year, he’s allowed just 1 HR in 78.2 IP.

Gorski is 25 and there’s no reason to baby him at this point. It’s time to promote him and let him get five or six starts the remainder of the year to see if he can be an option for the major league rotation in 2014.

There’s nothing to be gained by holding him back at this point. While the B-Mets are playoff-bound, and Gorski would likely be their second-best pitcher behind Syndergaard, they have enough depth to cover for his absence. Logan Verrett has 12 Wins while Erik Goeddel and Mark Cohoon have nine apiece, giving the B-Mets enough pitching for the postseason.

The Mets need to promote from within and give Gorski the next shot in the rotation. The last thing they need is another failed pitcher from another organization whose best days are behind them. Harang was a solid pitcher in the majors for a long time. But his days as an MLB-quality hurler are over. It’s time to give a shot to a homegrown kid. And Gorski has more than earned the chance with his pitching in 2013.

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