I don't know if that question fell by the wayside, but perhaps more digging should have been done into other teams passing on him for medical reasons. I feel like the question you pose here was explored more from a "can he bounce back to the top young arm he was?" and less "is his arm good to go?" I feel like that part of it did get brushed aside a bit because, let's face it, it's hard to find a pitcher these days that doesn't have a history of arm problems.
I'd like to hear more from the team about why they thought differently than the Mets on the medical side.