So Matt Harvey is struggling with a 5.77 ERA through nine starts and one thing everyone is sort of delicately pointing out: He looks a little chunky.
Mike Vaccaro in the New York Post,
And look, while we’re at it, let’s identify one of the 800-pound elephants in the room: Harvey no longer remotely resembles the lithe, elite athlete he was in 2013. The Mets did him no favors re-broadcasting a Mets-Yankees game from ’13 on SNY on Monday night’s off-night; all you need is a glimpse of what Harvey looked like then, and what he looks like now, to see a stark difference.