Back in the Spring of 2016, Bryce Harper was asked by 106.7 the FAN in D.C.’s Grant Paulsen and Danny Rouhier about the possibility of signing a record-breaking deal when he hit free agency, which was two years away at that point. There were rumors at the time that Harper and his agent, Scott Boras, were looking to get something in the $400M dollar range.
”I was talking to an executive this offseason,” Paulsen said, as quoted in a transcript on CBSSports.com.
“At one point they said you could be the first $400 million player.