On his mission to find a non-surgical alternative, young Mets pitcher Matt Harvey is seeking wisdom from the baseball world.

That quest on Tuesday took him to Roy Halladay, one of several players to pitch through unresolved arm issues in the past. Halladay told Harvey that he suffered flexor pronator damage in his forearm around 2006, and never had it repaired.

Shortly after that conversation, Harvey published his now-infamous tweet that he "will be back next year for April 1."

"I just shared that with him and what I went through," Halladay said. "[Dr. James] Andrews had told me that [he] felt like at some point they'd have to go in and repair it. That was eight years ago and I've never had an issue since."