Bryce Harper and Trea Turner were teammates on the Washington Nationals from 2015 to 2018. They'll likely be together for a whole lot longer in Philadelphia, with Harper having nine more years on his contract and Turner signing an 11-year, $300 million pact with the Phils this week.
And it was, at least in part, a selling point for Turner.
"We pictured playing with Bryce and [Kyle] Schwarber and a lot of those guys on the team now," Turner said Thursday during his introductory press conference. "It just seemed like a lot of things added up and pointed us in this direction.