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As improbable as it may seem, the New York Mets could be in the process of overtaking the mighty New York Yankees as the team to watch in the Big Apple. Everyone knows New York has always belonged to the Yankees, but if things continue to project on their current path Read More »
The last time Matt Harvey threw a pitch at Citi Field was Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. It wasn't a good outing. The powerhouse Detroit Tigers laid a beatdown on him. Up until that point, Harvey was great and it turned out the shelling was due to a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. Now that Harvey has returned, though, the New York Mets are hoping for him to bounce back in a big way. As a matter of fact, they expect him to be the second coming of Dwight "Doc" Gooden by being a top ace in the league and having the ability to draw fans to the ballpark. He's beginning to draw Gooden-level attendance numbers. Knowing Harvey is taking his cannonball right arm to the mound for the second game at Citi Field, ticket sales soared. The "Harvey Effect," much like the "Gooden Effect," helped draw more than 40,000 people to the seats for the Tuesday game. That's only a few thousand off from the 2013 All-Star Game's number of 43,947 fans. Gooden's attendance numbers were eerily similar. In the 18 games he started at Shea Stadium, he drew an average of 40,072 fans. For every other game, the average attendance was 34,005. Read More »
New York Mets ace Matt Harvey isn't afraid of making headlines or being seen, and Tuesday, Dec. 2, he met the media in anticipation of his return season to the mound. Harvey, who missed all of 2014 after undergoing Tommy John surgery after bursting onto the scene as one of baseball's best pitchers in 2013, hinted vaguely at a playoff prediction for his normally moribund Mets. "I don't think it's going to be easy to skip starts — I don't think any pitcher is going to want to really do that," Harvey said, about taking small rests throughout the season, according to "USA Today." "But to be able to pitch in October is going to be more important." The Mets haven't sniffed October since 2006, after historic collapses in 2007 and 2008 seemed to serve as a middle-finger prerequisite to troubling times ahead. Soon after came the Bernie Madoff scandal and half a decade of futility. Then, in 2013, Harvey came along and stole the baseball spotlight. He started the 2013 All-Star Game and posted a 2.27 ERA in 26 starts. Read More »
He didn't even try to hide it. Matt Harvey — the New York Mets rehabbing pitcher — attended Derek Jeter's last game at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night, and he let everyone know it when he posted a photo to Instagram. Read More »
