Harvey announced his retirement.

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[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] Former Metropolitan "Dark Knight" Harvey (Matt Harvey) officially announced the end of his baseball career on his social networking site today.

Harvey was selected by the Mets with the 7th overall pick in the first round of the 2010 draft. He completed his career debut in 2012. In 2013, he was selected for the first time and the only star game in his career with outstanding performance. He also won the Cy Young Award in the same year. The affirmation of the fourth place, unexpectedly in the same year, he was diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow, so he underwent ligament replacement surgery at the end of the year.

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After a full year of rehabilitation, Harvey returned to the mound in 2015. In the same year, he scored 13 wins and 8 losses, with an ERA of 2.71. Still on the mound, but underperformed due to minor injuries and mental issues.

2021 is the last time Harvey will be on the major league pitching mound. When he played for the Orioles in the minor league in 2022, he was suspended for 60 games because it was revealed that he had supplied banned drugs to the former Angel left-hander Tyler Skaggs. , and subsequently became a free agent in November. This year, he represented Italy in Taiwan to participate in the World Baseball Classic. In the end, he did not get any more major league team contracts, ending his rough major league career.

Harvey left 180 games in the major leagues, pitched 966.1 innings, scored 50 wins and 66 losses, with a 4.42 ERA and 867 strikeouts.

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