In his first one-on-one interview since signing a record contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, Bryce Harper said he didn’t know whether he “fit” into the Washington Nationals’ plans and criticized the $300 million contract they offered him due to its amount of deferred money.
Harper complained to ESPN The Magazine’s Tim Keown that “about $100 million” of the offer the Nationals made him in September was deferred until he was a senior citizen.
“I grew up in front of those fans and that city, and I enjoyed every minute of it,” Harper says.