Bryce Harper can’t be a free agent for three-plus years, but there’s already speculation – or maybe it’s just wild fan hope – that he’s destined to one day be a Yankee.
The Nationals’ star clearly has heard that chatter, too, because he had all the right answers to questions about his future Tuesday night before he played his first-ever game at the Stadium.
Right for the Nationals, anyway.
“I love the Nationals,” Harper said a few hours before he went 2-for-4, including a homer off Masahiro Tanaka, in Washington’s 6-1 loss to the Yanks. “I enjoy the Nationals organization.