Should Bryce Harper regret signing with the Phillies?
Bryce Harper’s former team knocked out the Phillies from postseason contention and clinched a Wild Card spot in the same day, so should he regret not signing with the Nats?
Bryce Harper was offered a $300 million contract during a rain delay last season while he was in his last season with the Washington Nationals. He rejected it and went into the free-agent market.
Well, he might be regretting that choice right about now.
I understand that he received $30 million more than he would have has he agreed to that deal, but he was already going to get $300 million so what is another $30 million? Is that really going to have that big of an impact on his life? I don’t think so.
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Harper wanted to play for the Philadelphia Phillies, who is the rival of his former team but he forgot one thing.
Winning.
The Phillies went into the season with a mediocre rotation that was never going to perform well enough to make it to the postseason so the offense was going to need to step up.
Andrew McCutchen got hurt and that was the end of the Phillies season.
The Nationals rotation is stacked for the postseason with Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg, and Patrick Corbin at Dave Martinez‘s disposal.
Victor Robles and Juan Soto are stars in the Nats lineup now and are going to be in the middle of the lineup in October while the Phillies players are on the golf course.
And while Harper goes back to his hotel room in D.C. on Tuesday night, the Nationals are pouring champagne in the home clubhouse at Nationals–without Bryce Harper.
Just take that in for a second.
Harper was supposed to be “Mr. National” but once he rejected that $300 million deal on that rainy September night in D.C., he told Nats fans that he didn’t want to be there anymore.
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The Nationals are partying without him and they are just fine with that.