Harper to Phillies

[MDtransplant757]

14 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Good and looking forward to a new era of Orioles baseball.

You and me both. 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

2 minutes ago, Tx Oriole said:

I'll be glad when Harper makes a decision and signs with someone. 

Harper seems to be holding out hope another team will swoop in at the last minute to save him from signing with the Phillies.

[GoldGlove21]

11 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Harper seems to be holding out hope another team will swoop in at the last minute to save him from signing with the Phillies.

The Phillies will be good really soon IMO. I think Harper wants to be on the left coast and not play for a dud. The Dodgers are probably where his market would be awesome, but I want to see him shock the world and sign with a team nobody could have predicted.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

4 minutes ago, GoldGlove21 said:

The Phillies will be good really soon IMO. I think Harper wants to be on the left coast and not play for a dud. The Dodgers are probably where his market would be awesome, but I want to see him shock the world and sign with a team nobody could have predicted.

02/26/19: Breaking news, Orioles schedule press conference at the warehouse to announce the signing of Bryce Harper.

[OriolesMagic83]

46 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Harper seems to be holding out hope another team will swoop in at the last minute to save him from signing with the Phillies.

It seems that he wants to sign anywhere but Philly.  What exactly can you buy with $350 mill that you can't buy with $300 mill. 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

2 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

It seems that he wants to sign anywhere but Philly.  What exactly can you buy with $350 mill that you can't buy with $300 mill. 

I think as GoldGlove21 speculated Bryce wants to play on the west coast and is holding out hope he’ll get another offer.

[jrobb21613]

Scott Boras is the best at what he does and while I don’t think Harper is worth more than Machado  mark my words he will sign a larger record breaking contract.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

10 hours ago, jrobb21613 said:

Scott Boras is the best at what he does and while I don’t think Harper is worth more than Machado  mark my words he will sign a larger record breaking contract.

Too bad for Boras Mike Ilitch still isn’t around, he might have been able to get him to bite on a record setting contract for Harper.  

[Number5]

11 hours ago, GoldGlove21 said:

The Phillies will be good really soon IMO. I think Harper wants to be on the left coast and not play for a dud. The Dodgers are probably where his market would be awesome, but I want to see him shock the world and sign with a team nobody could have predicted.

Yakult Swallows?

[TonySoprano]

11 hours ago, jrobb21613 said:

Scott Boras is the best at what he does and while I don’t think Harper is worth more than Machado  mark my words he will sign a larger record breaking contract.

The Nats walked away.  Philly drew their line in the sand and aren't bidding against themselves.  Heyman is doing his best to pretend there's more to the market than them.  He's so transparent in his reporting, doing the bidding for Boras.  Read the comments every time Heyman tweets; they're brutal.  Boras overplayed his hand on this and can't figure out how to save face.  

[Whammer]

18 minutes ago, TonySoprano said:

The Nats walked away.  Philly drew their line in the sand and aren't bidding against themselves.  Heyman is doing his best to pretend there's more to the market than them.  He's so transparent in his reporting, doing the bidding for Boras.  Read the comments every time Heyman tweets; they're brutal.  Boras overplayed his hand on this and can't figure out how to save face.  

I know one thing.  After all the bitchin and whining by the players union about collusion, if Harper walks away from $300M to sign a short term deal with the Dodgers, he's going to have some splaining to do.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Someone got their daily update from Boras.

 

[Moose Milligan]

People love to hate Heyman, I don't get it.  So what if he gets dirt from Boras?  

His tweets get posted here all the time (along with snarky comments) so he must be doing something right if people are paying attention to him.

[Can_of_corn]

5 minutes ago, Whammer said:

I know one thing.  After all the bitchin and whining by the players union about collusion, if Harper walks away from $300M to sign a short term deal with the Dodgers, he's going to have some splaining to do.

It wasn't really 300M.  Word is the offered deal had a lot of deferred money so the actual value was lower.

[TonySoprano]

11 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

People love to hate Heyman, I don't get it.  So what if he gets dirt from Boras?  

His tweets get posted here all the time (along with snarky comments) so he must be doing something right if people are paying attention to him.

There's a difference between "getting dirt" and actively being his PR guy trying to help create a phony market for which there's always a "mystery team."   Philly's owner flew out to Vegas and left with no imminent deal.
FWIW, on his podcast, Curt Schilling said he heard Harper had 10/$330M on the table from Philly, and that was before the Vegas trip.  Between that and the Nats rejected offer you have to shake your head at their strategy.  Reconcile that with talk of a short deal with, first it was SF,  and now L.A. for a high AAV.