I see some folks on twitter are all sad that Bob Ojeda said Matt Harvey never learned how to pitch.
If anyone has watched a Matt Harvey baseball game, he has two looks. One is The Dark Knight, but as soon as he takes a punch (a walk, a double) his body language goes to hell and he winds up in trouble.
I’m reminded of the Original Next Seaver, one George Thomas Seaver, who told this story….
I come back to the dugout after the first inning and Dave Duncan, our pitching coach, comes up to me and says: ‘You ain’t got s— today.’ I said to him, ‘I know that’ and then I pointed to the other dugout, and added, ‘but they don’t know that!'”
Source: Tom Seaver to today’s power pitchers: ‘Learn how to pitch’ | MLB | Sporting News
…so yeah Matt. Learn how to pitch. You can’t blow a flat fastball past everyone whenever you want.
Let’s take a look at 41 year old Tom Seaver’s last two months. You think he had his best stuff? As late as August he’s still throwing a complete game and another 8.2 two starts later.
And to this day I think the 1986 Mets are lucky that Tom was on the DL that October..
”If it does happen, I’d want to beat the Mets badly,” he said then. ”But first, a lot of other things have to happen.” (via NY Times)
You’ve watched this team a log time, you don’t think it would have been our fate that Tom Seaver won Game 7 for Boston?
Anyway, learn to pitch Matt. The big payday is gone but you are still young and could take a one year deal and try to cash in in 2020, the Yankees will still be there for you.
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I think we’re somehow all starting to get old enough that half the fanbase has no idea how good Tom Seaver was.