It seems Matt Harvey has a partially torn UCL. Shannon posted about the UCL itself earlier. Go read it if you need a quick update about what it does.
Last season I defended Terry Collins’ decision to leave Santana on for his no hitter against Shannon. He thinks that contributed to Johan being done for this year. I still think he hurt himself trying to play with a lower body injury. But in this case with Harvey, damn. What’s going on with the team doctors, front office, and training staff? It seems the Mets lose a lot of players to injuries.
And, I have to agree with Shannon about leaving Collins out there as a lame duck manager, making moves as of he is fighting for his job. I also think the front office/owners might have kept pushing Harvey out there because they knew fans show up to the games he is pitching (pure opinion on my part).
Matt Harvey underwent an MRI today that revealed a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow, which will likely force him to end his season by going on the disabled list.
3:47 pm: The team will determine if Harvey needs Tommy John surgery at a later date (Rosenthal, FOX Sports).
3:45 pm: Harvey has a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow and he will be put on the disabled list (Francesa, WFAN) Rubin, ESPN NY). Sports)
Great. Hey Mets, how does this work into the narrative now? You guys better come up with an amazing back up plan to whatever plan you had for 2014. I have a feeling if you guys don’t do something big this offseason there is going to be a lot and I mean a lot of discontent amongst the fans.
Ugh. I can’t wait to see what Mr.Shark is going to have to say about this.
Matt Harvey just went to address the media.
From Adam Rubin
Harvey: “Obviously it was the last thing I was kind of expecting when I went in this morning. I haven’t had shooting pain … at all.”
Harvey said he was only dealing with forearm tightness recently. It got more uncomfortable after his last start.
Matt Harvey says it’s tough to pinpoint when forearm tightness began, but he had been getting treatment and felt like he could pitch thru it
Matt Harvey said it had been a month or two that he had been dealing with the forearm tightness, but did not believe it was serious.
From Evan Roberts
So both Matt Harvey and Sandy Alderson have contradicted Terry Collins on the forearm soreness issue
From Kevin Burkhardt
Harvey says he will do whatever he can to avoid surgery. Not sure yet if he will get a 2nd opinion.