Report: Matt Harvey Threatened To Fight Teammate After 2012 Hazing Incident
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- You can't touch Matt Harvey on the mound.
And apparently you shouldn't mess with him off it.
Former Mets reliever Jon Rauch, at an imposing 6-foot-11, targeted Harvey for some old fashioned rookie hazing last season, which ended with the fiery starter threatening "to whip his a--," according to Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports.
Passan's report goes like this: Harvey was mid-nap in the Mets' clubhouse when Rauch poured a bucket of ice water on him. Harvey, drenched along with his cell phone, "bounded up and challenged Rauch to a fight. Right there. Right then."
The huge, tattooed reliever backed down, according to Passan: "(Harvey) would not be a punch line in Rauch's re-telling. He would not let some mediocre clown play him."
Rauch went 3-7 with a 3.59 ERA in his lone season with the Mets.
"I'm not gonna discuss it," Harvey told Yahoo! Sports on Tuesday.
Harvey is 6-1 for the Mets this season with a 2.16 ERA and 115 strikeouts.
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