PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- For three days following surgery to remove a rib from his torso, Matt Harvey could not feel his right hand. He thought about his future in baseball and the past he might be leaving behind, not so far removed from his perch as one of baseball's best pitchers.
"It was kind of an unknown feeling," Harvey said. "Throwing a baseball has always been easy for me. Last year, it just wasn't."
Harvey spoke those words Monday from Mets camp, concerns about his health now mostly behind him. It has been seven months since Harvey's surgery to repair thoracic outlet syndrome, a disorder that caused numbness in in throwing arm as far back as last spring.