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StumbleBryce Harper inks last-minute deal with Nationals
Las Vegas teenager’s contract to be worth $9.9 million
Associated Press
Bryce Harper, shown in April before a baseball game with the College of Southern Nevada, was the first pick of the Washington Nationals in the June draft.
Published Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 | 9:22 p.m.
Updated Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 | 9:56 p.m.
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Las Vegas teenager Bryce Harper and the Washington Nationals reached an agreement on a $9.9 million, five-year contract shortly before the deadline of midnight EDT Monday night.
The 17-year-old Harper, who starred at Las Vegas High and the College of Southern Nevada, will receive a $6.25 million signing bonus in five equal payments of $1.25 million: 30 days after approval and each July 1 from 2011 through 2014.
Harper, who primarily played catcher at CSN but will be moved to the outfield with the Nationals, will receive salaries of $500,000 each in 2011 and 2012, $750,000 in 2013, $900,000 in 2014 and $1 million in 2015.
Harper hit .443 with 31 homers and 98 RBIs in his first season at the College of Southern Nevada, which plays in a league that uses wood bats. He skipped his final two years at Las Vegas High School and got his GED, making him eligible for the 2010 amateur draft.
He already has been on the cover of Sports Illustrated at 16, touted as “baseball’s chosen one” and “the most exciting prodigy since LeBron.” He was the first non-senior to earn Baseball America’s High School Player of the Year award. And he was only the second junior college player, joining Alex Fernandez in 1990, to win the Golden Spikes Award, given to the country’s top amateur baseball player.
A year ago, the Nationals agreed to a record-breaking $15.1 million, four-year contract with No. 1 draft choice Stephen Strasburg a little more than a minute before the clock ran out. Strasburg made his big league debut June 8, the day after Harper was drafted.
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Good for him! Tear it up Bryce!
'Good Luck Bryce! Go hit some bombs,work hard,stay healthy and most of all have some fun..
doesnt seem like hes getting paid so much to b a number 1 pick overall in the draft
Gee, what a surprise!?
Don't be a fool, stay in School?
LOL
"Man started out with it in a cave;
They're runnin' home, nobody's safe.
Left with a note, all alone;
Only wanted to have a happy home.
Now it's my turn to show my stuff;
It's sometimes fun and sometimes rough.
I'm workin' hard to earn my way;
But, lucky me, my work is play." --Ted Nugent
GL
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What's the over/under on his inevitable arrest for public intoxication/minor consumption/fighting with a bouncer in a bar? I'm setting it at 1 year.
Harper will do well in professional baseball
dodgerchuck, isn't that because he's not a pitcher? I don't really follow baseball, but I think I heard that's how the money works.
and they idiot was posting "looks like another year" typical money hungry athlete T bag.
Now he can afford to hire someone to help with his makeup.
Word wisdoms --
"The trick son, isn't earning money -- the trick is holding on to what you've earned."
"There are those who work for their money and then there are those that have their money work for them -- who do you want to be?"
"Concealing assets is an art few are experienced at."
"Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt". - Harvey Mackay
"Dig your well before you're thirsty." - Harvey Mackay
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