Jeremy Hefner to be promoted to Mets today

Jeremy Hefner will rejoin the Mets for today's game, prior to which the team will make a corresponding roster move.

In 11 sporadic appearances for the Mets this season, Hefner is 1-3 with a 5.64 ERA.

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Matthew Cerrone: The word is Hefner will be added to back-up Miguel Batista, who will start today against the Nationals. There is also the chance Hefner sticks around to start in place of Johan Santana, who the team could skip a start to get him some rest. Santana might be healthy, but he looks totally spent ' as they he's hit a bit of a wall here, maybe a dead arm or something, following a long year of rehab from major shoulder surgery. I don't think it's a DL situation, but he just isn't right. So, keeping Hefner around could help float a few different scenarios and I think it's too early to speculate, since there is also the added wrinkle of maybe adding Matt Harvey to make a start in either Arizona or San Diego, which I think is very likely.

As for who gets sent down to make room for Hefner, if Santana is not put on the DL, I agree with Adam Rubin that Kirk Nieuwenhuis likely gets sent down. He's struggling and, like Rubin pointed out on Twitter, it would delay Kirk's eventual free agency by a year.