Matt Harvey

[TroutBaseball]

How many teams are making phone calls to the Mets about taking Harvey off their hands?  What would it cost to buy someone who has burned his bridges in the org?  The Angels lost Harvey when they first drafted him, could he be on his way back?

[totdprods]

Way too many teams could beat a potential Angels offer. It's a nice thought, but we'd have to be willing to offer pretty much the farm to have a shot and to be honest, he really seems like he may not be as good as he first looked. And he's kind of a doofus. 

The only 'good' starter we can acquire right now would be someone akin to Jason Vargas, Scott Feldman, Miguel Gonzales, Matt Andriese, JA Happ, Francisco Liriano, and it'd have to cost something that wouldn't kill the farm or the everyday team - guys like Perez, Cron, Marte, Cowart, Meyer, Middleton, Johnson.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

If a trade discussion started with Espinosa, I think I'd be fine with that.

[eligrba]

1 hour ago, Angel Dog and Beer said:

If a trade discussion started with Espinosa, I think I'd be fine with that.

It would simultaneously end with Espinosa as well...

[Tyler]

Don't see Arte signing off on a trade for this guy after their prior history. This guy seems more interested in increasing his waist size than his bank account these days anyways.

[Make Angels Great Again]

He's an irresponsible lazy baby.

I see no reason to think he can turn it around.

[wopphil]

When was the last time he was actually good?

[ABC]

Matt Harvey could have been the Angels’ problem.

In 2007 they drafted Harvey in the third round. He threw hand grenades for his Connecticut high school team, and the fact that he’d committed to North Carolina didn’t faze Eddie Bane, the scouting director. Three years before, Bane had signed Nick Adenhart, who also was the top prep pitcher in the nation and also had committed to the Tar Heels. Adenhart was coming off an elbow injury, but the Angels still picked him in the 14th round and gave him $710,000 in persuasion money.

Harvey, then as now a Scott Boras client, wanted $1 million. Arte Moreno, the Angels owner, wouldn’t budge.

http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20150908/los-angeles-angels-could-have-had-matt-harvey-with-a-little-more-investment

[nando714]

Dodgers need SP. 

they have the pieces 

[nando714]

22 minutes ago, #CF8 said:

Matt Harvey could have been the Angels’ problem.

In 2007 they drafted Harvey in the third round. He threw hand grenades for his Connecticut high school team, and the fact that he’d committed to North Carolina didn’t faze Eddie Bane, the scouting director. Three years before, Bane had signed Nick Adenhart, who also was the top prep pitcher in the nation and also had committed to the Tar Heels. Adenhart was coming off an elbow injury, but the Angels still picked him in the 14th round and gave him $710,000 in persuasion money.

Harvey, then as now a Scott Boras client, wanted $1 million. Arte Moreno, the Angels owner, wouldn’t budge.

http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20150908/los-angeles-angels-could-have-had-matt-harvey-with-a-little-more-investment

Arte Lol

the owner that keeps on giving 

at least beer prices are low

[GrittyVeterans]

Damaged goods. Steer clear

[Lou]

1 hour ago, nando714 said:

Arte Lol

the owner that keeps on giving 

at least beer prices are low

Arte is the winner here.

 

[nando714]

12 minutes ago, Lou said:

Arte is the winner here.

 

Over a billion times 

[Lou]

lol

[Lou]

2 hours ago, wopphil said:

When was the last time he was actually good?

2015

since then:

23 GS  (6-12)

127.2 ip  4.94 era  1.34 whip 

Edited May 9, 2017 by Lou

[Lou]

... and a suspension for not showing up to the stadium when he was scheduled to pitch

[ABC]

Matt Harvey rhp
1 year/$5.125M (2017)

• 1 year/$5.125M (2017)
  • re-signed by NY Mets 1/13/17 (avoided arbitration)
  • performance bonuses: $25,000 each for 150, 160, 170 innings
• 1 year/$4.325M (2016)
  • re-signed by NY Mets 1/15/16 (avoided arbitration)
  • performance bonus: $25,000 for 200 innings pitched
  • award bonus: $25,000 for Cy Young
• 1 year/$614,125 (2015)
  • re-signed by NY Mets 3/5/15
• 1 year/$546,625 (2014)
  • re-signed by NY Mets 3/3/14 (split contract, $299,250 in minors)
  • performance bonuses: $10,000 for 2013 All-Star selection (met). $50,000 for fourth place in 2013 Cy Young vote (met)
• 1 year/$498,750 (2013)
  • re-signed by NY Mets 3/3/13
• 1 year (2012)
  • contract purchased by NY Mets 7/24/12
• drafted by NY Mets 2010 (1-7) (North Carolina)
• signed 8/16/10, $2.525M signing bonus
• agent: Boras Corp.
• ML service: 4.072

[ukyah]

55 minutes ago, Lou said:

... and a suspension for not showing up to the stadium when he was scheduled to pitch

 

in the interest of fairness, he was suspended for not showing up to the park the day before his scheduled day to pitch, they suspended him the day of.

[Lou]

10 minutes ago, ukyah said:

 

in the interest of fairness, he was suspended for not showing up to the park the day before his scheduled day to pitch, they suspended him the day of.

umm, you didn't let me finish.

... the next day. 

[Inside Pitch]

10 hours ago, ukyah said:

 

in the interest of fairness, he was suspended for not showing up to the park the day before his scheduled day to pitch, they suspended him the day of.

Not to mention he was sort of shit on in his previous start -- the Mets decided to pitch him on short rest and nobody bothered to tell him..   Dude supposedly had a hard core throwing session the day before and then subsequently got rocked...   

He's still a slapdick though...

 

[fan_since79]

14 hours ago, eligrba said:

It would simultaneously end with Espinosa as well...

...by the time they got to the third syllable.

[yk9001]

Get him an accountabilty partner and he'd be good to go in Anaheim.

[yk9001]

Harvey — who makes $5.1 million and is 2-2 with a 5.14 ERA this season — rolled up on the velvet rope club “with his boys” at about 1 a.m. and settled into a private table, the sources said.

The star pitcher threw back a triple play of top-shelf booze, including Armand de Brignac “Ace of Spades” Champagne, Don Julio 1942 tequila and Belvedere vodka, witnesses said.

Harvey and his entourage kept to themselves until leaving the West 17th Street club, sources said.

[Blarg]

He will be one of those Where Are They Now? stories 10 years from now.

[fan_since79]

I can afford the vodka and maybe the tequila, but the champagne is out of my league.

But why would you want to mix all three of those?