Bryce Harper, catcher and Scott Boras advisee

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

wonder when he'll go on his mission

If he ever comes up with a line as brilliant as Reggie's "The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play," I'll be his biggest fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ53Q0At6FM

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

"Look for this athlete to begin getting more and more headlines and becoming a very famous Mormon."

yeah i'm hoping he doesn't flame out for the very reason that he might fully embrace the villain role. a 19 year old kid trolling other teams on the field, in the media, and on twitter would be pretty special.

exactly, baseball has enough "good guys"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7128/6977167718_b5001aae9e_o.gif

dude has a fucking LASER

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=21073869&topic_id=&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_21073869&v=3

he hit the snot outta that double, I don't think anyone's gonna regret the callup.

lol @ harper missing 1st base and called out on appeal

http://i.imgur.com/DOtEt.jpg

all the pieces are coming together

lol at that #04 in the background in the gif a few posts above. everyone was probably like 'did you see harper's double? you're so lucky you got to be there to see it!' and he's like 'uh...yeah...uh"

they were doing the wave, actually

fuckin californians amirite

Bryce's dad is scary.

hbp, goes 1st to 3rd on a hit to lf, scores on a pickoff attempt to 1st

technically he stole home

on espn

kid knows how to market himself

soon we will all have that haircut

After his suspension, would love to see Hamels suffer a career-ending injury:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7899287/philadelphia-phillies-cole-hamels-plunks-bryce-harper-admits-aiming-him