Can the Mets replace Matt Harvey?
Ummm, yeah.
It might be hard to replace the Matt Harvey Hype, but it's not hard to replace the on-field production:
"So this is how the season ends for Matt Harvey and maybe the best of it
for him ends, with surgery for a shoulder condition that most of us
didn’t even know existed until this week. This is how it ends for the
guy who looked like the new Seaver when he came along, who became the
biggest pitching star for the Mets since Dwight Gooden."
Harvey didn't live up to the hype which I helped perpetuate.
"Harvey was a star, the ace of his staff and the ace of his city, and was
the most exciting starting pitcher, for either New York baseball team,
since Doc. Then he got hurt the first time. He came back, but then Jacob
deGrom, who is not the same pitcher he was last season, was the ace of
the staff. Then Syndergaard. Now Harvey is gone again. He says he will
be as good as new when he gets back. We’ll all see about that."
An oddly-structured (were we talking about Jacob deGrom?) and long-winded way to say he's the second coming of Joba Chamberlain.
"Mets fans, of course, remember the Generation K pitchers of 20 years
ago, Paul Wilson and Bill Pulsipher and Jason Isringhausen, and how they
were going to be the young arms and young guns that pitched the Mets
into the World Series the way Harvey and deGrom and Syndergaard and Matz
did last season"
Generation K?
"Only Isringhausen really lasted, ultimately having his greatest success
as a relief pitcher. The best season Wilson ever had in the big leagues
was with the Cincinnati Reds in 2004. He was 11-6."
Thank you, baseball-reference.com.
"As good as Gooden and Darling and Fernandez were in the 80s, this group
of pitchers is the best the Mets have had in nearly 50 years. It has
been big fun watching them. Now we’ll see how long the fun lasts."
I don't blame you for believing the hype. The problem is, you also generated the hype.
I don't know why (I have some idea) nobody cared about Chien-Ming Wang or paid attention when Ivan Nova won 15 in a row ... I guess he didn't strike out enough players or cultivated a suitable online presence/Batman-related nickname.
(By the way, Harvey would have to go 23-10 ... win the Cy Young Award, basically ... to match Nova's career record.)
The Yankees bore you. The Yankees are old news. You hate the Yankees.
The rest of the article just proves the point ... anti-ARod, anti-Gardner, anti-Hicks, pro-Reyes, pro-Flores. A lengthy takedown of ARod, which isn't beating a dead horse so much as beating a boring horse.
Wilmer Flores is the most popular Met of his generation. Uh huh. Even more popular than Mike Baxter? Even more popular than Josh Satin?
You're not really writing about sports, are you? You're just writing fictional biographies of the players.
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