Bryce Harper: Baseball reference| Wife| Hit in face| Dad

 Bryce Harper fought off tears as he looked back at his long, sometimes painful season that culminated with another MVP award. Today we will be disscu about Bryce Harper: Baseball reference| Wife| Hit in face| Dad

Bryce Harper: Baseball reference| Wife| Hit in face| Dad

Bryce Aaron Max Harper is an American professional baseball right fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. He played in MLB for the Washington Nationals from 2012 to 2018. He is known as a “five-tool player”.

Baseball reference

Bryce Harper was the first overall pick in the 2010 amateur draft and the National League Rookie of the Year in 2012.

Harper went 16 for 28 with six doubles, four homers and 16 RBI in eight games in the 2008 Youth Pan Am Games to help the USA win the Gold Medal. The next year, he batted .626/.723/1.339 with 14 homers, 22 doubles, 9 triples, 36 steals, 76 runs and 55 RBI in 115 games as a high school sophomore. He was the only underclassman picked for either the Baseball America first team or second team High School All-America Team, chosen as the top catcher in high school ball in the USA. Not only that, he became the first underclassman to ever win the Baseball America High School Player of the Year Award; Joe Mauer had been the only catcher to win the honor previously.

Harper got his GED after his sophomore year of high school so he could play junior college baseball in 2010, not finding the high school game challenging enough. Going into the Junior College World Series, Harper was hitting .442/.524/.986 with 29 home runs, 89 RBI, 88 runs and 18 stolen bases in 62 games. He was leading all of junior college baseball in both homers and RBI despite being only 17. He was named MVP of the Scenic West Athletic Conference. Harper made the cover of Sports Illustrated in June 2009, the first high schooler to appear on the magazine’s cover since basketball’s LeBron James in 2002.

Wife

Like Bryce, Kayla Warner (now Harper) was born in 1992 and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The pair didn’t begin dating until Bryce’s rookie year in 2012. They got engaged in 2014, but reportedly parted ways in 2015, when Bryce deleted all photos with her from his social media account. They apparently reconciled in 2016 and officially got married in December 2016 at a San Diego Mormon temple.

Speaking of, Kayla was raised Mormon. She and her husband are both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Bryce Harper told the Washington Times in 2013 that he was not trying to be “Mr. Tim Tebow,” in spite of writing? Luke 1:37? Every autograph he signs. That Bible verse says, “For with God nothing will be impossible.”

“I try to be the best running Book of Mormon I can be,” Bryce Harper said.

Hit in face

Bryce Harper, when he lay on the ground Wednesday night in St. Louis after hitting his face at a speed of 97 mph, touched his cheeks and nose, to see if he was bleeding or Only hurt. There was a small cut, but the Phillies slugger said it “didn’t feel like it was running water.”

And then Harper overheard the home-plate umpire, who was only a few feet away from the pitch being hit, instructing him to stay on the ground.

“And I thought to myself, ‘No. I’m getting up,'” Harper said on Friday. “Like, I’m not going out here. I’m up, never mind. If I fall, I fall. But I’m getting up.”

Harper was able to walk off the field at Bush Stadium and two days later still couldn’t believe how it all happened.

Dad

Due to these low expectations, the Derby and its semi-new format were pleasantly surprised, as Harper struck 19 homers to beat Chicago Cubs outfielder Kyle Schwarber in an epic final round. In other words, it was a great night for baseball and its two star players, but the real star of the show didn’t even wave a bat. That’s right, Bryce Harper’s dad Ron Harper and his huge biceps totally stole the show:

What is absolute tank? And he got to show these pythons on the mound all night long, throwing fireballs in Bryce’s direction. Check out some of these pitches (disregard this guy’s actual tweet. Imagine if the home run derby was rigged or not?):

I heard the Yankees are looking for another pitcher to run until October. Ron Harper would look great in pinstripes, as would Bryce.

Here’s the final pitch, a hilarious moment for fans of Bryce, his father, and Nat: