Yesterday, Matt Harvey met with the Mets' front office and told them, "You ruined my shoulder! I was the Dark Knight! Now I'm 1960s Batman in hard-to-watch Technicolor unable to move my arms to do the Batusi!" Matt Harvey asked Bartolo if this ever happened to him and he said, "Nah, I am 90% jelly and custard. My nerves are coated in more sugar than a churro." Harvey needs shoulder surgery due to thoracic outlet syndrome. Sandy Alderson said it's inevitable. Pitchers who have had this surgery take at least a year to recover and sometimes never regain past form. It could not only be a season killer, it could be the end of Harvey as we know him. He could opt to rehab his shoulder without surgery, but rehabbing it won't magically make his pitching better than he's been all year, which is atrocious. If you don't have DL room, I could see dropping him. Fun fact! You know who suffered from thoracic outlet syndrome? The Lispasaurus. Tiny arms, big body. Other dinosaurs pickin' on 'em because of their lisp -- why'd every dinosaur have to have an S sound in its name?! Total recipe for messed-up shoulders. "I hate Thoracic Park!" Spielberg can make a Thoracic Park movie where an injured pitcher tries to repair his relationship with his pre-teen son while genetically-modified dinosaurs chase after them. "I know I wasn't there for you when you were growing up or for your keeper league team in 2014 or for that velociraptor attack 15 minutes ago, but I'm here for you now." The boy looks up, "How did that velociraptor throw a Warthen slider?" The father responds, "He's learning!" Seth Smith is working on the script. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
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