Few players have entered Major League Baseball with the pressure surrounding Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper. Some would say that whether Harper has met expectations is debatable, but Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is not among them.
“He’s one of the best players in the game. There’s only a handful of people in modern day baseball that can sort of talk about trying to live up to expectations and anticipation,” Roberts said before the second game against the Phillies.
“I can think of Ken Griffey Jr., certainly Bryce, maybe Alex (Rodriguez). There’s very few guys that were that young coming into the game, to have that pressure to be the face of an organization, a face of an industry, and to perform.