Bryce Harper enrolls at a junior college
by battlekow on Jun 14, 2009 3:19 PM EDT
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PrintBryce Harper, the top prospect for the 2011 draft and recent Sports Illustrated cover boy, has taken his first step toward being eligible in 2010. As the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports, Harper has enrolled at the College of Southern Nevada and plans on taking classes starting in August.-Baseball AmericaIn order to be eligible to play for Southern Nevada, Harper must pass his G.E.D. which he intends on taking this fall. If he passes he will be eligible for the 2010 draft.
An interesting side note, Bryan Harper, Bryce’s older brother, is leaving Cal State Northridge to play at Southern Nevada so they can potentially play together for one more year. Bryce was a freshman at Las Vegas High when his brother was a senior, giving them one year on varsity together.
Bryce, a lefthanded hitting catcher, will be in Baseball America’s backyard at USA Baseball’s Tournament of Stars starting June 23. We will have more about Harper then.
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Does Bryce like Washington, DC that much?
Sergio Romo: striking out professional hitters since 2005. And winner of the 2012 NL Fireman of the Year Award!
beat the 2012 CBA....
Bryce wants to beat the new CBA before his growth plates close. This is exactly what is wrong with the amateur draft.
Should be interesting to see...
how Todd Marinovich v2.0 does when he becomes a pro. He should also take a look at the last prep player to ever grace the cover of SI. Never reached the majors and barely pitched in the minors.
Adam Dunn: Proof that even sabermetrics doesn't have it right.
Marinovich
I don’t see how he’s more like Marinovich than any tennis player. The best high school baseball player in the country shouldn’t have to view baseball as just a nice little extracurricular activity until he’s 18 just because it meshes with our values.
i always worry about guys like this
Will the pressure get to him? He’s 16! It’s gotta be immense for him. I hope he doesn’t flame out like Josh Hamilton did, the last “too good to be true” story. Sure Hamilton has rebounded, but that doesn’t happen all that often when you turn your life to drugs and alcohol. It’s a slippery slope when we start expecting greatness from kids who are 16 years old. That’s insanely young.
Age is a state of mind
Some people are more mature at age 16 then many people are at 26. I don’t get this whole “whoa, 16 is too young…” Look at all of the Olympic athletes, look at pro Tennis players, and many other sports who have athletes competing at the highest levels in their teens. The only thing that’s odd is that we don’t see it that often in baseball. Countless teens have shown they can keep it together, yet people are fascinated by the few flame outs, if for no other reason than that they are drawn tyo watching train wrecks.
Hamilton
later in the night that he tried his first beer, he tried his first line of cocaine. incredible…
by richieabernathy on Jun 15, 2009 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions
found it
“One day he ventured into a Bradenton tattoo shop and got the first of his 26 tattoos. “The people were friendly and accepting,” he said. “It was a good place to be.” His acquaintances at the shop invited him to a party; and there, he said, after drinking beer for the first time, he used cocaine for the first time."
by richieabernathy on Jun 15, 2009 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions
It's true. He was without his parents for the first time in his life
because of a car accident and apparently he has an addictive personality no one, not even he saw.
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Young Phenoms
The only young phenom to ever live up to this sort of hype is Tiger Woods, hands down the greatest athlete in the world at his sport. So for argument’s sake and to have a little fun let’s make projections to what he needs to accomplish to be the Tiger or Lebron of baseball.
18 – Minors
19 – Minor’s/May call up and put up a Ryan Braun like debut
20 – .310/40/100 RBI
21 – .331/43/114 – this is the age Tiger won his first major so i’m expecting a near MVP type season.
22 – .326/41/110
23 – .318/31/101
24 – .351/47/142….MVP
25 – .357/42/146….MVP
26 – .323/32/101
Like i said this is just a projection based on the fact SI has made him sound like the next Tiger or Lebron of baseball. In no way is it an actual projection of what I personally project him as but if SI thinks he’s that good then this is the numbers I would expect of a Tiger or Lebron baseball talent.
Ummm...
There have been a number of hitters who began to do about that well from that age.
A-Rod. Age 20 – OPS 1045. At 21, slipped to .846. By 22, was at .920. 23, .943. From 24-26, his OPS were 1026, 1021 and 1015 respectively. This is all while he was playing SS.
Albert Pujols – 21, 1013. 22, .955. 23 – 1106. 24 – 1072. 25 -1039 and 26 – 1102.
And this is only in the past 12 years. (You could also add Miguel Cabrera and probably Justin Upton if you were so inclined) Obviously this doesn’t mean that Harper will be the next A-Rod or Pujols, but it wouldn’t exactly be unprecedented.
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by OldProspects on Jun 17, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions
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