“Our priority now is Yoenis and getting him to where he can be the best player he can possibly be. How we do that, I think that’s a question for the experts that are going to re-evaluate where we’re at with him and then check him out.”

–Mickey Callaway, July 21, Yankee Stadium

Experts?

The Mets work with experts?

Is there an expert out there who will associate him- or herself with the Mets? Declare yourself, brave expert!

For right now, the only expert who seems to be involved with the Mets is an expert in chaos. A saboteur type. Someone whose mission is to make this professional sports operation look as inept and bush-league as humanly possible, and to encourage any interested patrons to run for the hills.

Yoenis Cespedes dropped a bomb on the Mets and the public late Friday night here in The Bronx, and the Mets reacted Saturday by bathing in the shrapnel. Cespedes’ short-term future remains profoundly unclear, as he didn’t play Saturday due to general soreness just one day after making his return from the disabled list and, Callaway said after the Mets’ 7-6 loss to the Yankees will see a foot specialist and get an MRI early this coming week.

Then again, Callaway didn’t rule out playing Cespedes in Sunday night’s series finale. Which is like saying to a choking man, “Excuse me, sir, before I perform the Heimlich maneuver on you, would you like another hot dog?”

As unclear as Cespedes’ prognosis might be, the Mets’ gift for self-destruction remains as clear as their run differential.

Callaway, the highest-ranking member of the Mets brass to speak on Saturday, began his pregame news conference with an all-time beauty. Asked by SNY’s Steve Gelbs about Cespedes’ comments Friday that he has dual heel calcifications that will eventually require surgery with an 8-to-10-month recovery period, the Mets’ rookie manager said this:

“I didn’t get to read any of the stuff he said or hear it. I’m not quite exactly sure what he said.”

That, as former Yankees manager Joe Girardi would say, is not what you want.

A Mets official later asserted that Callaway misspoke, that of course he knew of Cespedes’ comments and meant to ask whether Gelbs had a specific question about the outfielder-first baseman’s condition. Regardless, the bigger issue is that when your injury-prone $110-million player breaks this sort of news, it rises above the manager’s pay grade.

It falls upon the general manager to address such a topic, and as luck would have it, the Mets currently employ three general managers in Omar Minaya, J.P. Ricciardi and John Ricco. The situation screamed for more insight. Do the Mets agree with Cespedes that this serious surgery is inevitable? How surprised were they that Cespedes regressed so quickly after coming off the DL?

Not one of the trio made himself available to answer these questions and more, as the Mets worked on completing their trade of Jeurys Familia to Oakland for a predictably underwhelming return. Which meant the Mets offered only some gobbledygook and one whopper of a brain cramp, or something worse, by their inexperienced, imprecise manager.

The Mets hope that Cespedes spoke Friday out of a mixture of physical pain and emotional pain, his soreness blended with the annoyance that so many are doubting his integrity. Who knows with this guy? All we have learned with him is not to be surprised whatsoever by any development.

And the same, of course, goes for the Mets, jack of no trades and master of none, either. Remember when they revamped their medical staff and culture last winter to avoid situations precisely like this one?

Looks like they’re gonna need some more experts.