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With the national anthem just completed and the first pitch of Thursday’s Mets matinee about 10 minutes away, David Stearns was indulging a phone call about a potential rotation logjam with Paul Blackburn already relegated to the bullpen and Frankie Montas and Sean Manaea progressing in their injury rehabs.

In a variety of ways, the president of baseball operations offered that the Mets would make decisions when they had to make decisions and not before because often the decisions are made for you.

“Two weeks in baseball,” Stearns said, “is a long time.”

It wasn’t even two hours later that the words resonated more powerfully. Kodai Senga injured his right hamstring covering first base in the sixth inning of what would be a 4-3 win over the Nationals. He will have an MRI on Friday, but Carlos Mendoza already acknowledged an IL stint is definite. With it came another reminder that there really is no such thing as having enough starting pitching.