Life is busy these days for Matt Harrison, though not necessarily the kind of busy he was expecting for the final year of the five-year, $55 million contract he signed with the Texas Rangers before the 2013 season.
He was coming off an All-Star season and career-high 18 wins, and was emerging as one of the top left-handers in the American League. Now, he’s out of the game because of a bad back — really bad — and working away on his property in Creedmoor, N.C.
There was a dock to build for the two-acre pond, fencing and sheds to build over the 18 acres, and lots and lots of grass to mow.