By Ryan O.
By now I’m sure everyone who watches, follows, or knows anything about baseball has heard of Bryce Harper. If you haven’t heard of him, he’s the guy who left high school after his sophomore year, took his GED test, and enrolled in junior college when he should have been a junior in high school. He did all that so he could enter in the MLB draft a year early. After one year of dominating junior college pitching and putting up video game stats with his light tower power, he entered in the 2010 MLB draft and was selected first overall by the Washington Nationals. In 2011 when he should have been a senior in high school, he was playing minor league baseball in the Nationals farm system. He played 72 games with Single A Hagerstown, 37 games with Double A Harrisburg, and put up solid numbers at both levels.
In 2012, he came into spring training with one goal: to make the Nationals opening day roster as a 19 year old. So far he is having a solid spring, and currently has a batting average of .313. He suffered a minor calf injury, but seems fine as he only missed a couple of games. Trying to make the team as a 19 year old is no easy task, especially when the team would like to start him in the minors to delay his arbitration for one more year.
Whether Bryce Harper breaks camp with the Nationals or comes up as a June call up from the minors, he will be one of the most watched players in all of baseball.
Will he turn out to be a bust? Just an average big leaguer? Or will he top the lofty expectations?
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