A soul for a soul...
We all kind of knew that Bryce Harper was going to come back earlier than expected from his rehab assignment in Lehigh Valley. Call it knowing the competitive nature of the man, but when Harper laid waste to minor league pitching over the two games he played there, it felt like an inevitability that he’d be back earlier than his expected return of next week in Arizona. Today, Rob Thomson made it official.
There is always going to be the risk that Harper re-injures his thumb, does something else, what have you, but the preference is that he do that in the major leagues rather than in the minors on a rehab assignment.