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Expectations weren’t high last summer when, in search of pitching help, the KC Royals signed former Mets star Matt Harvey to a minor league contract.
The move came less than a week into the shortened 2020 season and fit the club’s “reclamation project” mold perfectly—since infamously convincing New York manager Terry Collins to let him pitch the ninth inning of the 2015 World Series’ fifth game against KC, a decision that set the table for the title Kansas City won three frames later, Harvey hadn’t been Harvey. Fighting injuries at times, he went 19-31 with a 5.