Harvey, 22, does not want to just win. He wants to dominate. He is never satisfied. In that way, it is fitting that his favorite player is Paul O’Neill.

“I play the game to win, I play the game hard, the way it should be played,” Harvey told The Post. “I want to be great, and I’ll do whatever I can to make that happen. I’m never satisfied.

“I loved Paul O’Neill’s approach and the way he would get so mad at himself. He felt that he needed to be perfect every time, and I loved that.”

– Kevin Kernan, N.Y. Post.

Oh c’mon, really? Paul O’Neill? I thought you were cool, Matt Harvey.

Kernan takes in Harvey’s start against the Bradenton Marauders in Port Charlotte, Fla. and describes the prospect’s “easy gas”* and “hard determination.”

With Jenrry Mejia set for Tommy John surgery, Mets fans are understandably pinning most of their hopes on Harvey. But I urge you to temper your expectations. Yes, he’s pitching extremely well in Single-A, but it’s Single-A and, well, he’s pitching. I’m not trying to be Debbie Downer and I’m as excited for Harvey as I am for anyone in the Mets’ system, but a lot can go wrong for the young man before he reaches the big leagues.

Remember: Mike Pelfrey was also once a huge prospect who dominated A-ball (and Double-A ball, for that matter) in his first season out of college. Just saying. And I know they’re very different pitchers and supposedly Harvey’s secondary stuff is a lot better, but recall that there were tons of scouts and baseball-person types heralding Pelfrey’s frontline-starter stuff when he first broke in.

Also, remember that Jesse Foppert and Paul Wilson and Brien Taylor and countless other forgotten hopefuls were future aces too. You could do a hell of a lot worse than Mike Pelfrey.

*- If easy gas makes for a promising pitching prospect, just… oh, this one’s practically an alley-oop.