The Mets are 6-11 this year in games started by Matt Harvey, who has pitched at a Matt Harvey-like level very rarely this season. In only four of his 17 starts has the right-hander posted a game score of better than 60, and only two other times has he been above the stat’s baseline of 50. Only twice has Harvey worked beyond the sixth inning of a game, and his wins above replacement figure for 2016 is 0.1, to go along with a 4.86 ERA and a strikeout rate that dipped to 7.4 per nine innings.
What this means is that while it is absolutely and unequivocally terrible news that Harvey has been diagnosed with symptoms consistent with thoracic outlet syndrome, and has shoulder surgery in his future that clouds the outlook for the rest of his career, the Mets are not nearly as doomed as you would have thought had you posed the scenario before the season of a devastating injury to the 27-year-old.