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Bryce Harper Agrees to $330 Million Deal with Phillies
The deal is reportedly worth $330 million over 13 years, which would make it the most expensive player contract in American sports history.
By NBC10 Staff

NBC Sports Philadelphia reports that the former longtime Washington National is switching to the inter-division rival, Phillies.



The Nationals gave up on re-signing Harper in recent months, and the move to Philadelphia would reshape the power structure in the National League East. In recent years, the Nationals had won four of the last seven NL East division championships.

Harper Mania had enveloped Philadelphia’s rabid sports fans in recent weeks. He joins a Phillies team expected to be much improved this upcoming season.

The All-Star slugger, who’s been named everything from the National League’s Most Valuable Player to the NL Rookie of the Year to the Silver Slugger, has a career .279 batting average with 184 home runs.

Phillies principal owner John Middleton had made it clear that the team was willing to pay what was needed to land Harper or the other big fish of baseball’s free agency, Manny Machado.

Machado signed earlier in February with the San Diego Padres. His contract is reportedly $300 million over 10 years. Harper’s reported contract is $5 million richer than Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton’s $325 million contract that he signed three years ago with the Miami Marlins.

Harper’s is the largest of three mega-deals signed this offseason. The Colorado Rockies re-signed their star third basemen Nolan Arenado to a $260 million deal.

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I wonder how long it will take for the Phillies to start shopping that deal around baseball? 3 years? 5 years? 7 years?

What I mean by that is there hasn't been a huge signing like this that has been successful for the team that signed the star. A-Rod signed the biggest deal in history (at the time) and was gone after 3 years. The Rangers were 216-270. The Angels grabbed Pujols from the Cardinals, making Cards fans sick and Pujols haters. They've made the playoffs once in 7 seasons with Pujols (and went down 3-0). They had both Pujols and Trout for the last 7 years and sucked. That deal wasn't worth it either. Who has signed a mega-deal AND has led his team to the postseason year after year? I can't think of anyone.