Thirteen months after his last big-league game, the Dark Knight returned to Major League Baseball.
Matt Harvey made his 2020 debut Wednesday, this time with the Kansas City Royals. The last time we saw Harvey pitch in the majors, the results were quite bad. In 12 starts with the Angels last season, Harvey posted a 7.09 ERA before being released on July 21. He signed with Oakland on a minor-league deal a month later, but never received a call-up. After electing free agency this past winter, he signed another minor-league deal with Kansas City in late July.
Harvey’s issues last season were plentiful, but perhaps chief among them were his continued velocity drop.