PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A Matt Harvey Day is coming soon!

Harvey Mets officials tentatively have scheduled Harvey to face the Detroit Tigers in the first home Grapefruit League game on March 6, a source told ESPNNewYork.com. The event would mark Harvey's first game action since Aug. 24, 2013. He underwent Tommy John surgery two months later.

Harvey technically is due to face batters on Friday for the first time since undergoing the elbow procedure. However, batters mostly will just be tracking the pitches and not swinging, so Harvey downplayed the significance. He regularly has been throwing off a mound.

"How these things usually go is guys will stand in and kind of watch, monitor and track pitches -- which guys did last year," Harvey said, referring to late in the 2014 regular season as he was rehabbing. "I think once they start really getting the counts and have somebody behind there, I think that's when [the significance] will start."

The March 6 game, which begins at 1:10 p.m., happens to be the first spring-training game SNY is televising.