There are a lot of people who would like for A-Rod to just go away. Matt Harvey is not one of them.
Harvey has been keeping tabs on Alex Rodriguez’s situation with the New York Yankees amid his own recovery from Tommy John surgery. The New York Mets ace is prepared to welcome A-Rod back to baseball with open arms, even if the slugger will go down as one of the biggest villains in MLB history.
“Obviously Alex wants to play, that’s good for him, good for baseball,” Harvey told the New York Post this week.
Rodriguez is set to return in 2015 after serving a season-long, performance-enhancing drug suspension. There’s no telling what kind of impact he’ll have with the Yankees after such a long layoff, but the 39-year-old has been trying to make amends for his past transgressions. A-Rod met with Yankees officials on Tuesday to apologize before reporting to spring training.
“If he is that dedicated and wants to come back, then more power to him for going up to the organization like that. It shows a lot,” Harvey said. “It will be exciting to see what he can do.”
Well, Harvey probably just lost some fans.
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