Bryce Harper | |||
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Harper in May 2017 | |||
Free Agent | |||
Right fielder | |||
Born: October 16, 1992 (age 26) Las Vegas, Nevada | |||
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MLB debut | |||
April 28, 2012, for the Washington Nationals | |||
MLB statistics (through 2018 season) | |||
Batting average | .279 | ||
Home runs | 184 | ||
Runs batted in | 521 | ||
Teams | |||
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Career highlights and awards | |||
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Bryce Aron Max Harper (born October 16, 1992) is an American professional baseball right fielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals . The Nationals selected him with the first overall pick in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft .
Harper won the 2010 Golden Spikes Award , awarded annually to the best amateur baseball player.[1] Going into the 2012 season, baseball prospect-watchers, including Baseball America , MLB.com , and Baseball Prospectus routinely ranked Harper as a top-3 prospect. He made his MLB debut with the Nationals on April 28, 2012, at just 19 years old. Harper was selected for the 2012 All-Star Game , becoming the youngest position player to be selected.[2] He has been touted as a "five-tool player ".[3] [4]
He won the NL Rookie of the Year Award in 2012, and tied for the NL lead in home runs in the 2015 Major League Baseball season . He was named the National League Most Valuable Player for 2015 by unanimous decision of the Baseball Writers' Association of America , the youngest MLB baseball player to ever do so. In 2017, his season was derailed by a slip on the first base bag which caused a knee injury in mid-August and heavily affected his play in the postseason.