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Harper Watch 2019: Unidentified Team(s)
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It’s madness.
Chris Russell of D.C. radio station 106.7 the Fan says that Bryce Harper will meet today with an unidentified team in his hometown of Las Vegas.
“Here’s what I know,” Russell told The Sports Junkies Thursday morning. “I knew the other day that he wasn’t signing anywhere, least of all with Philadelphia, because he’s got an unidentified team meeting with him in Las Vegas today.”
“From what I understand,” Russell said, “it’s not just one other team that’s getting involved in this, other teams are trying now that the price and now that this process has drawn out. I can’t say definitively he will meet with more than one other team, but from what I understand, other teams are trying to join the fray late.
“Now who these teams are, I don’t know.”
Is it… Arizona?
“I have been told all along that Arizona was a team that he had wanted to go to,” said Russell. “But they dumped out (Paul) Goldschmidt, they dumped out (A.J.) Pollock, who was a free agent.
“They seemingly are rebuilding, but Bryce had wanted to go there because of the proximity to Vegas, pretty good hitter’s ballpark, Chase Field in Phoenix. And he just thought that would be a good, ideal location for him and his wife to build a family.”
Harper Watch 2019, it continues.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com