Washington Nationals star prospect Bryce Harper spoke with CSN Washington about leaving Hagerstown and his promotion to Class AA Harrisburg. Guess what? He hated being in Hagerstown. From DC Sports Bog:
“Those last 20 games, I was really, you know, really not too focused,” Harper said. “You know, I was wanting to get out of there, doing things that I shouldn’t have been doing. And once I got [to Harrisburg Monday night], baseball was fun again. It was a lot of fun being out here, being in this kind of crowd, this type of atmosphere. You know, that’s what you live for.”
Now that Hagerstown is in his rearview mirror, baseball is fun again. Let the angels sing!
As Dan Steinberg of Sports Bog points out, Harper was in Hagerstown for 83 games. If he was “not too focused” for 20 games, that means he was bored and wanted out of Hagerstown for 25 percent of his season.
That’s not good.
I can’t blame Harper for wanting to be promoted. It’s perfectly natural for any top prospect to want to be promoted to the next level. Harper admitting that he wasn’t focused in Hagerstown for a substantial amount of time was a dumb thing to say.
Did he not realize that?
When Harper says idiotic things like this, he reminds people he is a high school dropout. Of course, Harrisburg is better than Hagerstown. Harrisburg is an AA organization and Hagerstown is a low single A organization. It’s stupid to compare the two.
If Harper was bored in Hagerstown, wait till he gets called up to Washington. Every night is officially Empty Seat Night in the nation’s capital. The Washington Nationals, formally the Montreal Expos, have enjoyed a losing record since relocating to Washington. The atmosphere in Washington is depressing.