Edgy MD wrote: But anybody who didn't see Matt Harvey flaming out young wasn't looking. Tim Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner, and José Fernández were just as electric as young pitchers as Harvey was — the former two emerging a few years earlier, and the last about the same time — and none of them are likely to get any Hall of Fame support either. There's a pretty wide gulf there between “flaming out young” and “Hall of Fame,” no? Also, when you say “anyone who didn't see Matt Harvey flaming out young wasn't looking” - do you mean not recognizing it as a possibility, or not recognizing it as a fait accompli? I think we all knew by August 2013 (when he needed his first major surgery) that “flaming out young” was a possibility, but the idea that it would necessarily happen is altogether different.