{"id":4654,"date":"2013-09-10T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2013-09-10T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:39:48","slug":"matt-harvey-optimistic-he-will-not-need-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/10\/matt-harvey-optimistic-he-will-not-need-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Harvey optimistic he will not need Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3592\" alt=\"mattharvey\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/mattharvey.jpg\" width=\"675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/mattharvey.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/mattharvey-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New York Mets pitcher Matt Harven is said to be &#8220;optimistic&#8221; that he will not need to undergo Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey, 24, started the All-Star game this season but has not pitched since Aug. 24 after suffering a partially torn ACL. He will visit Dr. James Andrews on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>FWIW, Harvey says his arm feels good. But all he&#8217;s done is ice it and ride a stationary bike. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Mets&amp;src=hash\">#Mets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Roberts (@TheJRob) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJRob\/statuses\/377466132594438144\">September 10, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have maintained publicly that the decision to undergo surgery will be Harvey&#8217;s and the right hander has sought out the advise of Roy Halladay who recently avoided Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>If Harvey undergoes Tommy John surgery he would be expected to miss the entire 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey made 26 starts for the Mets this season compiling a 2.27 ERA and a 0.93 WHIP. Harvey racked up 191 strike outs in 178 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New York Mets pitcher Matt Harven is said to be &#8220;optimistic&#8221; that he will not need to undergo Tommy John surgery. Harvey, 24, started the All-Star game this season but has not pitched since Aug. 24 after suffering a partially torn ACL. He will visit Dr. James Andrews on Monday. FWIW, Harvey says his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[404,76],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-matt-harvey","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}