Bryce Haper will be eligible for 2010 Draft...

[High Mileage]

From MLBTR...

 

Bryce Harper Enrolls In Junior College

By Mike Axisa [June 14 at 11:56am CST]

 

According to Matt Youmans of The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 16-yr old phenom Bryce Harper has enrolled at the College of Southern Nevada, and plans to attend classes this August. He will also get his GED this fall. Because CSN is a two-year institution, the move allows Harper to be eligible for the 2010 draft rather than waiting for 2011, when he would graduate high school.

 

Harper was introduced to the masses in a SI feature last month, and at the moment is the odds on favorite to go first overall in either the 2010 or 2011 drafts.

[Cocos Disciples]

Are the Nationals going to have enough left after Strasburg to sign him?

[High Mileage]

Are the Nationals going to have enough left after Strasburg to sign him?

 

They'd be really stupid not too, but then again it is the Natinals...

[jacksonianmarch]

he is the best 16 yr old offensive talent I have ever seen scouting reports and videos on. He had a BP session where he was hitting balls into the upper deck of a MLB stadium with wood.

[Cocos Disciples]

Longest HR at the Trop, granted with a metal bat. Also throws 96.

[Javier Lopez]

this guy hits homers hits so far, he hits them into the future, this guy is faster then the universe and I heard a rumor he can catch better then Jesus

[yankeessuck013]

One rainy February day in Las Vegas, home to a fake pyramid, a phony volcano, a faux Eiffel Tower, an ersatz New York skyline, a pirated copy of a pirate ship and the clever sleights-of-hand of magicians and plastic surgeons, Sam Thomas watched two men stretching a tape measure across South Hollywood Boulevard, reaffirming that there was at least one real deal in town. Thomas is the baseball coach at Las Vegas High, and the two men were his assistant coaches. The pair had come out in the rain to revisit the spot where, in a game the previous spring, a baseball had made landfall, a dimple in the desert, a tiny crater left in the sand by a home run off the bat of Las Vegas High catcher Bryce Harper, then a 15-year-old freshman.

 

The lefthanded Harper had hit the ball over the rightfield fence, two trees, another fence, a sidewalk, five lanes of traffic on elevated South Hollywood Boulevard and yet another sidewalk, until it finally landed in the brown, undeveloped desert. It might as well have been a flying saucer, judging by the grin on Thomas's face as he recalls the distance the ball traveled.

 

"Five-seventeen," it sounds as if Thomas is saying.

 

Five hundred seventeen feet?!

 

"No," Thomas says. Of course not. That would be preposterous. No 15-year-old kid could hit a baseball 517 feet.

 

"Five-seventy," Thomas clarifies.

 

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1156215/index.htm

[yankeessuck013]

This should be interesting and not from the money stand point. It's very well known this kid is a gigantic Yankees fan and they have said multiple times on the Sirius XM channel that the going rumor is he is trying to find a way to force his way to the Yankees in the draft (or find a way around it) and is the #1 reason why he will hire and has been consulting w/ Borass.

[jacksonianmarch]

I bet he's on some serious roids.

[Cocos Disciples]

Yeah, he said one of his goals in life is to play for the Yankees. So, six years in Washington, then on to NY.

[jacksonianmarch]

 

his swing is picture perfect and the balls he is hitting are retarded. Remember, he's swinging with a college metal bat, which is a lot deader than the bats most of you guys used when you were younger. HS just changed over when I started to the deader version. He is hitting just ridiculous moonshots.

[jacksonianmarch]

This should be interesting and not from the money stand point. It's very well known this kid is a gigantic Yankees fan and they have said multiple times on the Sirius XM channel that the going rumor is he is trying to find a way to force his way to the Yankees in the draft (or find a way around it) and is the #1 reason why he will hire and has been consulting w/ Borass.

 

He'd get 30 mil easy from the yankees. The Nats likely wont make that kind of commitment to a HSer. That being said, he's the best high school catcher since Mauer. And in terms of raw talent and skills, he blows Mauer out of the water (talking same age).

[yankeessuck013]

Yeah' date=' he said one of his goals in life is to play for the Yankees. So, six years in Washington, then on to NY.[/quote']

 

 

The question becomes will the Nats draft him if he flat out tells them "I will not sign with you no matter how much money they put on the table". I imagine he's going to tell that to every single team thats not the Yankees. It comes down to is there a team between him and the Yankees that is basically willing to throw away there first rounder to call his bluff? Thats whats going to make this interesting

[Cocos Disciples]

I kind of hope he does that, so he's automatically the most hated player in the league.

[Rdsxmbnt]

He's 16, I'd imagine he'll get over his Yankee obsession as he ages like most all ball players do.

[YAZMAN]

 

his swing is picture perfect and the balls he is hitting are retarded. Remember, he's swinging with a college metal bat, which is a lot deader than the bats most of you guys used when you were younger. HS just changed over when I started to the deader version. He is hitting just ridiculous moonshots.

 

Is this kid off the hook or what? Watching him swing is like listening to Mozart.

[jacksonianmarch]

He did say his goal is to wear pinstripes at some point in his career. I would assume he wouldnt sabotage his leverage by telling 29 of the 30 not to draft him

[YAZMAN]

He did say his goal is to wear pinstripes at some point in his career. I would assume he wouldnt sabotage his leverage by telling 29 of the 30 not to draft him

 

Only the Yankees could ruin this kid's career. Maybe Cashman will hire you to be his hitting coach?

[jacksonianmarch]

I wouldnt do a damn thing. So long as his trigger is timed right, he'll be just fine. He's got a lot of loft, but it is a quick swing with a ton of lower body generated power. He's not a huge kid, but he gets so much out of his lower half that he's damn near a finished product. Watch the video again and check out the torque in his hips, check out the internal rotation of the front hip during the trigger. Its just a beautiful thing. Whoever taught him how to hit taught him the perfect mechanics. His front hand elevates throught he swing generating a lot of backspin leading to tons of loft and the sound of the ball off his bat is crazy. Most metal bats have a ping to em. Some of the balls he is hitting have a crack to them not typically heard with a metal bat. Its as if he is swinging at another level compared to the rest of the crowd.

[YAZMAN]

I wouldnt do a damn thing. So long as his trigger is timed right' date=' he'll be just fine. He's got a lot of loft, but it is a quick swing with a ton of lower body generated power. He's not a huge kid, but he gets so much out of his lower half that he's damn near a finished product. Watch the video again and check out the torque in his hips, check out the internal rotation of the front hip during the trigger. Its just a beautiful thing. Whoever taught him how to hit taught him the perfect mechanics. His front hand elevates throught he swing generating a lot of backspin leading to tons of loft and the sound of the ball off his bat is crazy. Most metal bats have a ping to em. Some of the balls he is hitting have a crack to them not typically heard with a metal bat. Its as if he is swinging at another level compared to the rest of the crowd.[/quote']

 

His swing is baseball porn.

[jacksonianmarch]

did you see the ball he hit right down the line, at 485 feet?

[High Mileage]

"I've always wanted to put on the pinstripes," he says. "But I absolutely love Boston. I'd play anywhere, even Kansas City."

[yankeessuck013]

Dont expect it to happen that Harper makes it far down the board but I wont be surprised either. It actually might be good for baseball if he does because then it will spark a much needed change to the MLB draft. That change is a draft salary cap. It will never happen from a FA standpoint but if you could apply it to the draft you move a lot of the power back to the lesser teams in the league instead of them being intimidated by agents and big bonuses into picking lesser players

[jacksonianmarch]

You do know that by doing that, the sox will be hurt a ton. The sox are one of the biggest spenders in the draft. Especially over the past 5 yrs. Putting a draft salary cap would significantly impact your farm system production

[BoSox21]

Sidney Crosby said the same type of thing about playing for the Canadiens before his career started and its not gonna happen anytime soon. I'm a lot more interested in knowing what's in Harper's mind 7 years from now

[yankeessuck013]

You do know that by doing that' date=' the sox will be hurt a ton. The sox are one of the biggest spenders in the draft. Especially over the past 5 yrs. Putting a draft salary cap would significantly impact your farm system production[/quote']

 

 

Yea but its one of the things I feel has to be done because of the impact it could have in leveling the playing field. Plus I feel the Agents have far too much power in this game

 

It would also make the owners use the rev share money they get on players, scouts, managers and they would not be able to pocket it.