What Matt Harvey was makes unknown future so scary

Matt Harvey Photo: Paul J. BereswillIt’s times like these when it’s always right to come back to a conversation Terry Collins had years ago with Dr. Frank Jobe, the man who invented Tommy John surgery and saved countless pitchers from careers as insurance salesmen and phys-ed teachers.

Collins was working with the Dodgers then, and Jobe already had a long affiliation with the club, and the baseball man asked the fellow with the stethoscope how to cope with young pitchers and fragile arms. Collins talked a long time about all the preventative measures the Dodgers had taken, and how little it seemed to matter.

And Jobe simply shook his head slowly.

“If they’re going to break,” Jobe said gravely,…