PORT ST. LUCIE — The dream never came close to fulfillment last season.
Yes, there had been hope, maybe even optimism, among Mets officials that 2016 would be the year Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz and Zack Wheeler would unite in the same rotation, at least for a few turns, but the warning signs came early to suggest the Fab Five wouldn’t be converging.
Most alarming were Harvey’s early struggles, for which there seemed no cause. Then, in early July, the stud righty revealed a tingling sensation in his arm that was diagnosed as thoracic outlet syndrome, for which he underwent season-ending surgery.