After Tuesday night’s game against the Cardinals, despite no shortage of stories to write about, Matt Harvey once again dominated headlines. The fact that the Mets won—in exciting fashion, at that—was essentially an afterthought.
Matt Harvey’s move to the bullpen spurred a new wave of “fall from grace” articles, in which writers lament his attitude, “complacency,” and supposed lack of commitment. Conveniently, every single one of them either glosses over or leaves out entirely the fact that Matt Harvey had surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome. TOS ends careers more often than it does not, and yet the few success stories are often cited as examples that prove that Harvey can be successful if he gets his act together mentally.