Matt Harvey addressed the media at Citi Field on Tuesday afternoon prior to the Mets game against the San Francisco Giants, reconciling for his actions this past weekend that led to the right-hander’s three game suspension.

“As I just did with my teammates and all of the coaches, I apologized for my actions and I do apologize for my actions,” Harvey said. “Obviously, I’m extremely embarrassed by my actions. I apologized to my teammates, to the Mets organization, to the Wilpons, all the way down to the Mets fans for doing what I did.”

Harvey admitted and took blame for the fact that he was out on Friday night past curfew and played golf Saturday morning, putting himself in a bad place to be ready for showing up for a ballgame.

“I’m doing everything in my power so that never happens again,” Harvey said. “I am extremely embarrassed for my actions and am working forward to getting things back on track and doing everything I can to help this team win and help this organization moving forward and they have my word on that one.”

Harvey did not mention his reported migraine from this weekend, but took accountability for his actions and responsibilities.

The only thing that is left to do now is to put this behind him and the team and play baseball at a high level, while recognizing what had happened and not letting it happen again.

Original Report:

The plot thickens with the Matt Harvey saga as more information continues to come out regarding the circumstances that led to his three day suspension for failing to report to the ballpark on Saturday.

Sources told the New York Post that Harvey was out until 4 a.m. Saturday morning celebrating Cinco de Mayo with some friends at the swanky Manhattan hot spot 10AK. Seated at a private table, witnesses said Harvey and his entourage were drinking Armand de Brignac “Ace of Spades” Champagne, Belvedere vodka, and Don Julio 1942 tequila into the wee hours of the morning. Later that day, he failed to report for team practice, texting pitching coach Dan Warthen that he was suffering with migraines.

Warthen tried to call Harvey, but he did not answer his phone. Meanwhile a very agitated and concerned Terry Collins, prompted Sandy Alderson and team officials to send two security officials to Harvey’s Manhattan apartment to check on his well being.

They were greeted at the door by Harvey wearing his pajamas. This is where the accounts of the encounter start to split. According to Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports, Harvey thought they were there to verify his migraine story while people close to the Mets say they went there to see if he was okay and/or needed help.

The part that makes Harvey’s account harder to believe is that he played golf with some of his buddies Saturday morning, hours after he was out all night celebrating and drinking.

He got home, ate some lunch prepared by a private chef, and then went to bed. He woke up later with a migraine he described to Jon Heyman as “the worst of his life.”

The whole who-texted-who-first situation is sticky as well because he says he texted Warthen before four o’clock and didn’t respond the rest of the day because he was trying to sleep off his migraine. The Mets, as I mentioned earlier, say they received no text from him before noticing he was not at batting practice Saturday afternoon.

After the Mets beat the Marlins on Saturday, Terry Collins met with Sandy Alderson and Jeff Wilpon in what I can only assume was a smoky room with no windows and a single lamp hanging from the ceiling. There they decided to suspend Harvey for three games.

The Mets have a standing policy that if players are sick they have to clear it through the trainer Ray Ramirez before they are expected to report to the park. Because this particular situation was not handled that way, only by a frantic back-and-forth text exchange with pitching coach Dan Warthen, Harvey was suspended. That, right there, might be the team rule the Mets said he violated in their original press release.

Harvey is returning to the clubhouse today, and will start against the Brewers on Friday. Collins had something to say after the Mets’ 4-3 win over the Giants regarding the situation.

“One thing he has to do — and he’s done it in the past — he needs to address some guys,” Collins said. “He wants to do it in a group, which is the easiest, I always think. Or if he wants to do it individually, he can do that. I’m just going to leave it where he’s most comfortable because we’ve got to get this behind us, so however he wants to go about it to do that, I’ll sign on for that.”

This is not the first time Harvey has found himself in trouble with the Mets, but is the first time he’s skipped a game. According to a team source, though, he has been late on multiple occasions and was even fined $500 at least once. We of course all remember that he missed a team workout before the 2015 NLDS, citing heavy traffic as an excuse. (New York Post) He addressed his teammates then as he will have to do now.

Hopefully, Harvey can do the right thing today and apologize to his teammates, learn from this, and make better decisions in the future.