The Dark Knight’s season in 2017 has been far from meteoric, but at least now, we have some clarity on the situation.
Matt Harvey, 28, went down in the middle of June after several starts in which his velocity would drop alarmingly low after the first inning.
This proved to be a stress injury to the scapula in his pitching shoulder, several months after he went under the knife to relieve complications from Thoracic Outlet Syndrome.
After Harvey landed himself on the disabled list, the team was able to determine that the muscles in his right shoulder were atrophied and half the size of the muscles in his left shoulder.
While the right-hander may still miss the remainder of the season, he has been working on building his muscles back up to normal size and will look to graduate to a throwing program soon as he works his way back from the injury.
Harvey was just 4-3 with a 5.25 ERA, 6.19 FIP and 6.9 K/9 in 13 starts for the Mets this season when he went down almost a month ago.
It’s been a rough go of things since Harvey’s strong 2015 campaign, but hopefully finding that the muscles had atrophied and working to correct that will be huge in getting the righty back to a high level of performance.
Harvey is a gamer and when he is at the top of his game, there is no one else like him on the mound.
With the Mets falling quick out of contention, there’s no reason to rush him back, however, as it’s much more important to get him ready for next season when the team is ready to compete again.
