Mound Visits: Matt Harvey and Jayson Werth enjoy dunking on the Mets. Stars, they’re just like us!

Welcome to Mound Visits, your weekly recap of the best things you might have missed in baseball every week. This week brings us Jayson Werth and Matt Harvey both dunking on the Mets, Rich Hill getting dirty with his Players Weekend uniform, and Mike Fiers having to improvise a uniform after getting traded to the A’s.

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Matt Harvey, who was DFA’d and traded to the Reds earlier this year, returned to Citi Field for the first time and admitted he had regrets and got a nice video tribute. He also purposely chose to speak with the New York media at the exact time the Mets requested he not do that. Just an amazing show of disrespect to Mickey Callaway.

Or, he was being nice to the New York reporters he knows and getting them out of having to sit through another press conference about the state of the Mets.

The Yankees are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1998 World Series championship team that won 114 games (a franchise record and the American League record until the Mariners broke it in 2001 116 wins), and a whole bunch of alumni are coming through to enjoy the festivities. Including Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, and Joe Torre.

You know who’s not coming?

The Captain. The franchise’s golden boy. Number two himself, Derek Jeter. He’s no-showing the celebration of a World Series championship because he’s got to keep pretending the Marlins are based in the British Virgin Islands or something.

He’s not the only one skipping it (Orlando Hernandez, Scott Brosius, Joe Girardi, and Chili Davis are also not planning on attending it seems) but definitely the most high profile. Jeter got himself a new family and can’t even make it to the father-daughter dance with his 14-year old daughter anymore.

Mike Fiers, who was almost traded to the A’s at the trade deadline, finally got sent there this week. Unfortunately, when he arrived in Oakland he had a locker but not a hat.

He made due though! He’s like a Newsie, but baseball. Very 1920’s chic.

**Incredibly Alex Cora voice**

“He’s the best player in baseball!”

First, Jayson Werth threw an incredible amount of shade at both the Mets and former agent Scott Boras (both of whom deserve it) when he said he called “every team but the Mets” for a job when he wasn’t getting any free agent offers.

Then he dissed the “super nerds” in front offices who pay attention to analytics and weren’t giving him a job. Then, finally, he did this to a rec league pitcher.

On balance, a pretty decent week for Jayson Werth. Mostly because of the Mets and Boras burns though.

If the Mets wanted a sign that they should just pack it in this season, I think we found one.

If you don’t want to watch a video of the disgusting moment when an umpire had a large moth/bug/monster pulled out of his ear, then scroll past the next tweet. These screenshots are disgusting enough and I’ve had nightmares for two nights about this horror movie premise.

Here’s the video if you’re a masochist like me and enjoy losing sleep.

Trea Turner honestly can’t be blamed for thinking this is an out. Ender Inciarte and Adam Duvall were working magic in the outfield.

There are levels to this heckle, and all of them are great: Gardner is old enough to get it, it’s an extremely correct diss, and it’s a White Sox fan and they don’t have nearly enough wins as a fanbase this season.

Felix could be out of a starting job and Beltre could be out of the league after this season. Let’s hold on to these beautiful, hilarious, perfect moments while we can.

Before this season, I laid out all the reasons why Bartolo Colon needed to get a job for 2018 and stay in the league for as long as possible. Now, he holds the record for wins by a Latin American-born pitcher. Big Sexy needs to stay with us forever.

OK, so maybe he’s not a huge Nicolas Cage fan. But he does love cars, and this week we were reminded that Verlander owns a replica of “Eleanor” from Gone in 60 Seconds. He then got lit up by the Mariners on Thursday night, but at least he can go home to his beautiful custom car, watch Angelina Jolie act with white girl dreadlocks, and consider how best to adjust his performance the next outing.

There were some good nicknames and some bad nicknames chosen for this year’s Players Weekend, and I got into all that here. But there are some I didn’t have the time to applaud in that post, namely Dick Mountain.

No, seriously. Rich Hill went with D. Mountain because he’s an American hero.

Chris Sale also chose wisely.

This one remains an atrocity.

The Mariners didn’t have a player hit for the cycle on Thursday night, but they did have four players start the game by hitting a cycle in reverse. It’s the first time in franchise history that’s happened. They might be looking at missing the playoffs (again) thanks to great competition in the division and the Yankees and Athletics above them in the Wild Card race so they deserve a win where they can get it and this is very cool.

Vlad Guerrero, Jr. is back from the disabled list and still mashing. That is all.