Harvey’s first outing since surgery

Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey is coming off a pretty terrible 2016 season.

A good number of starting pitchers haven’t been the same after that condition (remember, it forced Chris Carpenter into retirement, for example) and the Mets’ postseason hopes ride on the arms of their young-and-talented rotation, so Harvey’s return to the mound in spring training on Sunday was a pretty big deal.

Perhaps Harvey’s arm wasn’t ready for more than that, though.

Prior to last season, Harvey was 25-18 with a 2.53 ERA (146 ERA+), 1.00 WHIP and 449 strikeouts in 427 innings in his career.

Along with Noah Syndergaard, Jacod deGrom, Steven Matz and Robert Gsellman, that version of Harvey would give the Mets one of baseball’s premier rotations.