Updating the initial reports on the Washington Nationals’ “aggressive offer” to Bryce Harper at the end of the regular season, Washington Post writer Chelsea Janes reported that it was a 10-year/$300M contract that Harper and his agent Scott Boras turned down in the weeks before the recently-turned 26-year-old outfielder officially became a free agent.
“[The Nationals] offered Harper $300 million for 10 years in a deal that included no opt-outs, according to multiple people familiar with the terms,” the WaPost reporter wrote today.
USA TODAY’s Bob Nightengale wrote on Twitter earlier today that that offer, “is no longer on the table although it doesn’t preclude talks from resuming before they make financial outlay for others,” adding in an article on the Nationals’ attempt to get something done before the outfielder tested the market that, “.