In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Matt Harvey announced that he was unlikely to pitch as many as 200 innings during the 2015 regular season.

Great, Matt, but how about we get past 50 PITCHES, first?

Prediction: Sometime in early January, the Mets will sign shortstop Everth Cabrera to a minor league deal with an invite to Spring Training. This is the kind of move that GM Sandy Alderson and puppet master Jeff Wilpon apparently just love to make.

In case you missed it, over the Thanksgiving weekend there was a blockbuster deal involving the Athletics and Blue Jays. There was also a trade involving an NL East club that slipped under the radar, as well as a few other transactions in the past week.

Let’s quickly go over the highlights …