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The Potomac River is near flood stage as it boils through the rapids at Great Falls, a crescendo of roaring noise. Further downstream from that much photographed natural beauty, at Nationals Park, a wave of human noise has not even begun to crest as fans of the Washington Nationals cheer a team that has risen […]
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Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg were taken in the amateur draft twelve months apart. Each was a Boras client deemed difficult to sign and likely to command a record signing bonus. Each was acclaimed as a unique talent well worth whatever it took. The fact that they came in succeeding years was deemed extremely rare. […]
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Kevin Goldstein took aim at Bryce Harper’s imposing rep this week in an article at Baseball Prospectus.com about his “makeup.” Â The amateur draft is counting down and Harper is more and more the only viable first choice. Will the alarm bells spook the Nationals? Â Is character as defining a factor for the rebuilding Washington […]
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Bryce Harper had no where to go but down after being hyped as Lebron James last June. Â Questions arose after uneven moments in his play last summer, then again at the start of the college season. Â Nationals GM, Mike Rizzo, who will pick first in the amateur draft in three months, must decide whether the […]
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