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Nate Scott

RIP Bryce Harper’s tampering efforts to get Mike Trout to the Phillies, 2019-2019

Goodbye, Beautiful Tampering Attempts By Bryce Harper To Get Mike Trout To Come Play With Him For The Phillies, you lived too short a life.

On Tuesday, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported that the Angels were finalizing a deal that would give Mike Trout a 12-year, $430 million contract extension, which would become the largest contract in American professional sports.

It’s a nice moment for Trout, to be sure, who has in his time in the MLB put together what might be the greatest start to a baseball career in history.

It’s not a nice moment for Bryce Harper, who signed a $330 million contract with the Phillies this offseason, and immediately went to work recruiting Trout to join him in Philadelphia.

That’s over now.

It was a beautiful, silly, stupid thing that I wanted to spend years speculating about. Instead, it is dead.

People made t-shirts and everything.

We will always remember you, Brief Debate About Bryce Harper Trying To Tamper With Mike Trout To Get Him To Come Play Baseball With Him. You burned fast and bright.

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