Roughly a year and a half ago, Matt Harvey was watching the sun set on his time in Queens. At the end of April, he was demoted to the bullpen. His struggles continued, his frustration mounted, and he stopped speaking to the media. This prompted a tidal wave of column inches filled with fall from grace character arcs, with the same members of the media who so carefully built up his Dark Knight persona seemingly relishing in tearing it down again. I wrote almost 1,000 words in Harvey’s defense. In early May, he was unceremoniously designated for assignment and later traded to the Reds for Devin Mesoraco.
Noah Syndergaard lived long enough to see himself become the villain
