Friday, September 21, 2012

Mets' Harvey wraps historic season

Matt Harvey?s final start of the season was delayed one day by a rain and the Mets rookie tossed seven innings of one-run, one-hit ball against the Phillies last night before being shut down to limit his workload.

Harvey finishes with a 2.73 ERA, .200 opponents? batting average, and 70/26 K/BB ratio in 59 innings, which along with his at times overpowering raw stuff has to have Mets fans awfully excited.

He also joins some pretty elite company by making double-digit starts and striking out double-digit batters per nine innings as a 23-year-old, which had previously been accomplished by just seven other pitchers in baseball history:

                      YEAR     SO/9
 MATT HARVEY           2012     10.6
 Stephen Strasburg     2012     11.1
 Scott Kazmir          2007     10.4
 Mark Prior            2004     10.5
 Johan Santana         2002     11.4
 Bobby Witt            1987     10.1
 Sam McDowell          1966     10.4
 Sandy Koufax          1959     10.2

That?s a pretty interesting mix of pitching phenoms.

Counting his work in the minors Harvey threw a total of 169.1 innings this season with 182 strikeouts versus 139 hits allowed. His control still needs plenty of work, but Harvey sure looks like he has ace potential.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/20/matt-harvey-finishes-strong-joins-elite-company-before-being-shut-down-by-mets/related

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