Since arriving in Washington with impossibly high expectations, Harper has met every challenge – and turned into a full-blown mega-star.
Long before Bryce Harper became a major league baseball player, and even well before he was drafted by a major league team, he was already being billed as the sport’s next big thing. He could hit home runs of unthinkable distances. His arm could fire a ball at blazing speeds. He was just a teenager when adults started considering him the kind of star a franchise could be built not just around, but upon.
Just 22 at the time, he becomes the youngest player to hit three home runs in a game since Boston's Joe Lahoud on June 11, 1969.Harper gets into a dugout scrap with then-Nationals reliever Jonathan Papelbon as frustrations boil over at the tail end of a disappointing 83-79 season.Harper is named the NL's most valuable player after leading the league in home runs , runs scored , on-base percentage and slugging percentage . He also posts a .330 batting average and drives in 99 runs.
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