Yankees predicted to pass on Bryce Harper trade amid Phillies' dreadful start
There's one valid reason why the Yankees would do this.
Yankees predicted to pass on Bryce Harper trade amid Phillies' dreadful start originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Philadelphia Phillies are off to a dreadful start and will need to turn things around quickly if they want to make a postseason push.
A bad May and June could force Philadelphia to become a seller at the deadline. That's not what the organization or the fans want, but it's a reality of the situation. Meanwhile, the New York Yankees have long been connected to Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper.
However, there are a few roadblocks to Harper landing in the Bronx. The Yankees rather infamously passed on Harper when he was a free agent back in 2018," Bleacher Report's Zachary D. Rymer wrote Friday.
"Perhaps they could rectify that mistake this season… if they didn't already have Ben Rice hitting rockets for them as their primary first baseman. " MORE: How son Justin Crawford made history like his father, Carl, with Don Mattingly Rice, emerging as one of MLB's best hitters , is standing in the way of a Yankees trade for Harper, who no longer plays the outfield. Not to mention the $153.