His brother has a $330-million deal. Bryan Harper makes $2,000 a month, hoping for a shot.
Bryan Harper delivers a pitch for the Lancaster Barnstormers . By Barry Svrluga Barry Svrluga Sports columnist with beat writing experience on baseball, golf, the NFL, college basketball and college football Email Bio Follow Sports columnist May 9 at 6:28 AM The tarp was on, and the outfield was a grassy soup late Sunday morning as Bryan Harper stood outside the people-on-top-of-people visitors’ clubhouse at Regency Furniture Stadium and said, quite plainly and believably, “I’m happy to be here.
“Everybody’s in the same boat here,” said Ross Peeples, Lancaster’s manager. “Everybody’s trying to get out of here.”With the Barnstormers all but climbing past each other in the visitors’ clubhouse, past the bags of turf-dry stuck behind the opening in the left-field wall that splits the Dairy Queen ad, one question becomes inescapable: Why?“I got too much left on the table, man,” he said. “I have too much left in the tank.
’I got too much left on the table, man,’ says Bryan Harper, 29, older brother of Bryce. From there came a slog completely familiar in baseball, which has countless more Bryan Harpers than Bryces. The kick-to-the-midsection came late in the 2016 season, when Harper had earned his way to Class AAA Syracuse by using a fastball that sits at 89-90 mph, mixed with a changeup and his wipeout slider to dominate left-handed hitters.
But no one called. So as Bryce wrestled with his own uncertain future — if there’s uncertainty in a contract that was sure to be nine figures — Bryan needed Matt LeCroy, his manager at Harrisburg, to call Peeples, his old buddy who first played for, then coached for and now manages Lancaster. Bryan needed a recommendation. He needed a job.
“We’re all trying to help each other out,” Harper said. “Nobody’s rooting against each other. You kind of get that in minor-league baseball. There’s a lot of salty guys there. It’s the 40-man [roster] guys that aren’t in the big leagues, and they’re [ticked] off about it. Then you have the older veteran guys that aren’t on the 40-man that are still stuck in Triple A that are like, ‘Well why am I not up there?’ It can be a toxic clubhouse culture.
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