Bryce Harper, catcher and Scott Boras advisee

and out of 3 picks in the 2nd round - the J's take two more pitchers! lol. at least these guys are lefties this time.

Apparently the Dodgers are trying to draft the entire LSU baseball team

Never change, Scott Boras

Bryce Harper wrote on his Facebook page Friday that he's, "Probably going back to [the College of Southern Nevada] to win a National Championship!"

lol

what the hell is the "College of Southern Nevada"?

the junior college he played at this year

seriously - what a little shit! (if it's true)

uh yeah... no way that this guy isn't signing

http://sportsradiointerviews.com/2010/09/22/bryce-harper-washingtons-great-white-hype/#more-26134

hes a yankees, cowboys, lakers fan

hah not surprised. hes a douchey teen after all.

but hes from Vegas right? not many home teams to root for..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwWU5C7-g5s

ha ha - the crowd reaction is something else there!

This guy's going to be nonstop headline gold in the bigs.

when's he coming?

No idea! I guess I should have added "if he doesn't get beaten to death in his sleep first."

lol what a dick

He's actually kinda tanked in AA so it might take a little longer than originally thought. Admittedly he's still only 18 and playing in AA so maybe not that long.

damn dude.. you cant do that shit..

I read this so maybe its some context. Looks like the plate umpre had somewhere to go after the game:

Sixteen of the 18 players who started Wednesday night’s Eastern League game between Richmond and Harrisburg weren’t too happy with the size of home plate umpire Max Guyll’s strike zone.

Body language, stare downs and brief post-strikeout arguments easily revealed as much through the first seven innings at Metro Bank Park.

Starting pitchers Eric Surkamp of the Flying Squirrels and Shairon Martis of the Senators, though, likely weren’t complaining about the generous zone. Both were absolutely terrific in a game ultimately won 3-1 by Richmond on a ninth-inning home run, and the duo shared 19 strikeouts.

Isn't Shairon the Dutch dude who threw the no hitter in the Baseball Classic?

Yeah, from Curacao.

RIP

what happen

was helped off the field w/ a leg injury, but apparently it's not that serious

out for the season (which is only two more weeks anyway) with a hammy

.318/.423/.554 with 14 homers in 72 low-a games
.256/.329/.395 with 3 homers in 37 double-a games

turns 19 in two months

Sent to AAA following a golden sombrero today, but there's this:

http://www.gq.com/sports/guides/201204/bryce-harper-mlb-baseball-preview

Now that Harper's the one hurt, he takes a hop-step out of the box. Again: "Fuuuuuuck!!!" A violent toss of his custom-made Marucci bat—inscribed with LUKE 1:37 ("For with God nothing shall be impossible")—across the batting cage. "Fuck it, I'm done." Harper shakes his hands vigorously and shoves them into a pile of infield dirt adjacent to the cage. "I didn't know I was hitting today, and I don't have my goddamned gloves," he says. "It hurts like a dick."

never have i wanted someone to marinovich so badly

Being a spoiled little shit is relatively low on the list of sports sins - I'll wait to hate him until he kills dogs or rapes someone or pays someone in his posse to shoot a dude.

one needn't be a criminal to be an asshole

anyway, he doesn't play for my team, so it doesn't take much

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ik8ifvaA1qzniimo1_500.png

mike francesa just said re: harper "now some ppl think this kid is the next babe ruth"

@AdamRubinESPN
Bryce HARPER strikes out looking in second encounter with Matt Harvey at Syracuse. HARPER hitting .228 in AAA this season so far.

first homer of the year today

in majors on saturday

Goddamit, I'm winning the league where I have him in the minors. I don't want to have to call him up.

rain deprived us of a kershaw/strasburg showdown today, but harper debut tomorrow is cool too

with a .708 OPS in AAA?!

He's bored

ha ha!

AAA stats for 3 weeks mean nothing, i'd say. plus they may have no better options, yes?

I guess since he can't be a Super 2 (because of his contract? read that somewhere) they have nothing to lose by bringing him up for a trial at least.

that ball was hit hard

Probably not the first to notice a resemblance to Jason Mewes...

liked him tossing off the helmet before he pulled into second on the double

Dave Fleming:

"...what are the odds that Harper turns out to be the villain of the current generation, in the same way that A-Rod and Bonds played the villain role in the last era. The same way that Ted Williams was. Ty Cobb.

I’d put the odds at better than 50%.

That’s just a hunch, of course...Bryce Harper might be the sweetest guy in the world. But it sure seems that every time I hear about Harper, it’s because he’s done something mildly dislikeable. There was that time he was ejected from the 2010 Junior College World Series, for drawing a line in the sand so that the ump knew where he missed. There was the famous incident where he blew a kiss to a pitcher after hitting a homerun. He’s been tossed from minor league games for bitching about called strikes...he just seems to do a lot to draw negative attention to himself. Which leads me to...

I think that Harper should just embrace the villain role. He should go full-on with it. He should come in tomorrow and tell Matt Kemp, ‘Wait ‘til you see Harper hit.’ He should taunt the second-place Braves on Twitter. He can pile on fines from the Commish’s office for criticizing umps. Just be the asshole, Bryce...embrace your inner bad guy. It’d be great fun for baseball."

i would loooove that

not sure how davey johnson feels about that

last night vin informed me that harper is a mormon???? not a terribly devout one, it would seem

well let's hope that harper isn't a virulent racist who purposefully spikes black players

http://www.holyfetch.com/sports/bryce_harper.html