Matt Harvey Refused A Minor League Assignment And Will Be DFA'd
Black Knight, Dark Knight, GOOD NIGHT!!! Cuncel da Harvey!
It’s craaaaaaazy to think that Matt Harvey could get flat out dropped by the Mets 6 years after he burst onto the scene and made Harvey Day a baseball holiday once every five days. He was the first of The Aces That Were Promised and there weren’t many pitchers more exciting than him when he was packing a boulder in his lip and mowing down hitters back in 2012 or 2013.
It’s also not crazy at all to anybody that has watched Harvey the last few years. I still remember the gut punch of finding out Harvey would need Tommy John surgery and the avalanche of PR nightmares he was a part of. Harvey clearly hasn’t been even close to the pitcher that was a cause of celebration once a week. Only Matt knows much of it is due to injuries, a shitty attitude, and off the field stuff. Regardless, Matt Harvey’s time with the Mets is about over. We can talk about if he is a bust or a guy who had shitty injury luck. But the one thing we can all agree on is that this entire baseball tragedy is sooooooooo typically Mets. Doc and Darryl were the story of the 1980s. Generation K covered the 1990s. David Wright’s corpse on the 25 man roster is the ghost of the 2000s. And now Matt Harvey (and lets be honest, we don’t know what will happen to the rest of the Four Horsemen of Queens) is the Mets fall from grace poster child for the 2010s.
Now we’ll see where Matt lands. If Harvey went to the Yankees, pitched a no-no like Dwight Gooden, and became a stud again, I wouldn’t be surprised. If Harvey struggled while bouncing around the league before falling off the baseball map, I wouldn’t be surprised either. He is a pain in the ass when he’s off and a dominant pitcher when he is on. The question is if he actually has anything left. Harvey is truly a real life Kenny Powers and by next week, he will be someone else’s problem.
Like KFC said on yesterday’s Mets Therapy Session, Scott Boras was the Phil Jackson of agents. He was always able to get contracts for the superstars. But to get any money for a guy with the injury, attitude, and off-the-field question marks that Matt Harvey has will be Boras’ biggest test yet.
Go to 10:40 for Harvey talk
I’m sure there will be plenty more written and discussed about Harvey on the blog the coming days and weeks. But right now its more of a relief than anything. Having to talk yourself into a player that hasn’t been dominant in five years, came up jussssssst short in the biggest moment of his career, and has been a bad headlines machine for years is tough. In seven days, all that will be over.
Time for some memes!
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