It feels like Matt Harvey versus the world

 
           Its not everyday that a pitcher in the majors has a stat line of:  7 innings, 5 hits, 2 runs, 4 Ks.......and is analyzed the entire game for 'not having his stuff tonight'.  So goes it for a 24 year old superstar on a poor team.  Instead of praising Harvey for once again giving the Mets a 'quality start', we hear about his lack of velocity, an inning by inning critique (with pictures) showing the location of his arm motion, and the overall reminder that he, unfortunately, pitches for our beloved New York Mets.    
           It seems as if the entire organization is waiting for this young man to take the mound every 5th day and pitch a complete game shutout. You know things are getting a bit surreal (for lack of a more interesting word), when the analyst for the game comments on Matt Harvey no longer having a no-hitter going after that 2nd inning double by Pedro Alvarez.
          I remain baffled by the fact that no other starter in the rotation has an ERA under 4.63 (great job Hefner). Add that to the fact that Matt Harvey this year has 7 'quality starts' (that 8th start he went 5 1/3 innings, 2/3 of an inning from getting it. As opposed to every other Mets pitcher to start a game this year, who total 8 combined.
Coming into last nights start by Harvey, no Mets starter could basically get out of the 5th inning. As it stands, the Johan Santana effect seems to have passed on to our man Harvey. They no longer hit for him.
          I watched for 30 minutes during pre game on SNY as the team supposedly pointed out the FLAW in their game of taking a million pitches to try and get the opposing teams starter out of the game (yeah, like they have been hitting any relievers). Only to then sit back and watch as basically everyone, minus David Wright, continue to take, take, take.... (oh, thank you Duda for actually swinging at a 3-1 pitch. Amazing how that works sometimes, huh?)
         So what do we end up with. A 2nd year superstar in the making, with 7 quality starts, and only 4 wins. Oh yeah, did we forget that Harvey gave up 1,1,1,and 0 runs respectively in those 4 starts to actually get the wins.
All this talk amongst the organization about what to do about rushing/not rushing Wheeler and Montero. Meanwhile, we have our pre games analysts, and Terry Collins himself, basically calling every Harvey start a holiday, and doing everything but guaranteeing at least 7 innings, and less then 3 runs aloud. But its ok, because everyone in the organization also publicly states that Harvey is 'confident' and can apparently handle anything.
        Maybe that is true. You know what else is true? Matt Harvey came out in the first inning against Washington, opposing Steven Strasburg, throwing 99 miles per hour. Great mechanics or not, maybe there is only so much a 'savior' can take.