Bryce Harper

Bryce Harper

33-Year-Old First Baseman1B
Philadelphia Phillies
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2026 Stats
AVG
.282
HR
9
RBI
23
R
24
SB
2
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2026 Fantasy Outlook
Harper once again failed to reach the 150-game plateau, having last done so in a full season back in 2019. He has suffered a variety of injuries from one requiring Tommy John Surgery to dealing with a left thumb fracture, a left forearm injury, a left hamstring injury, and, most recently, wrist inflammation, which kept him out most of the month of June. Despite the injuries, Harper remains a five-category producer, although the missed time limits how much he excels in any one of those categories. The 2025 season was more about quantity than quality, because Harper did not excel in any one offensive category as much as he did even in 2024. The wrist soreness was no doubt a factor in the decline at the plate, but his approach and discipline remained intact even if his ability to hit the ball as hard as he normally would waned. There is little reason to believe that 2025 is a warning of a slowdown for Harper, because had he remained on the field as much as he did in 2024, he would have likely exceeded that season's production. He remains one of the better options at first base in fantasy baseball as long as you do not yearn for his pre-Covid production levels. Read Past Outlooks
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40 Man Yes
Height 6'3"
Weight 210
DOB 10/16/1992
Born Las Vegas, NV
College Southern Nevada
Drafted 1st Rd 2010 WSH
Signed a 13-year, $330.7 million contract with the Phillies in February of 2019. Contract includes annual $500,000 bonus for MVP win, $50,000 for second-place and $25,000 for third-place finishes. Contract includes annual $50,000 bonus for All-Star appearance, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger and LCS MVP.
Exits with migraine
1BPhiladelphia Phillies
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May 9, 2026
Harper was removed from Saturday's game against the Rockies due to a migraine, Todd Zolecki of MLB.com reports.
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Harper was taken out of the game in the first inning before recording a plate appearance. If he ends up needing to miss additional time, Felix Reyes would be next up to start at first base for the Phillies.
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Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2024
 
 
+6%
OPS vs RHP
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+33%
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+6%
OPS vs RHP
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+1%
OPS vs LHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2024vs Left .849 518 64 22 73 6 .280 .356 .493
Since 2024vs Right .898 859 117 44 112 15 .271 .374 .524
2026vs Left .772 63 7 3 10 0 .236 .317 .455
2026vs Right 1.027 103 17 6 13 2 .310 .417 .609
2025vs Left .815 229 29 10 32 4 .273 .336 .478
2025vs Right .864 351 43 17 43 8 .253 .370 .493
2024vs Left .907 226 28 9 31 2 .301 .387 .520
2024vs Right .894 405 57 21 56 5 .277 .365 .528
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+22%
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+7%
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+24%
OPS at Home
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+27%
OPS at Home
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2024Home .965 691 104 39 98 7 .300 .397 .568
Since 2024Away .794 686 77 27 87 14 .250 .337 .458
2026Home .901 93 13 5 11 1 .275 .376 .525
2026Away .964 73 11 4 12 1 .290 .384 .581
2025Home .941 272 40 15 37 3 .293 .393 .547
2025Away .760 308 32 12 38 9 .234 .325 .435
2024Home 1.003 326 51 19 50 3 .313 .406 .597
2024Away .790 305 34 11 37 4 .257 .338 .452
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How does Bryce Harper compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.92
 
BB Rate
13.9%
 
K Rate
15.1%
 
BABIP
.284
 
ISO
.268
 
AVG
.282
 
OBP
.380
 
SLG
.549
 
OPS
.929
 
wOBA
.399
 
Exit Velocity
88.6 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
35.6%
 
Barrels/PA
10.2%
 
Expected BA
.280
 
Expected SLG
.568
 
Sprint Speed
22.0 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
44.9%
 
Line Drive %
16.9%
 
Fly Ball %
38.1%
 
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It feels like not all that long ago that Harper was anointed "Baseball's Chosen One" while gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated as a 16-year-old, and similar to LeBron James in the NBA, Harper has managed to exceed seemingly impossible expectations. He reached 30 homers last season for the fifth time in his career while also surpassing 40 doubles for a second time. After an elbow injury and subsequent Tommy John surgery necessitated a full-time move to first base in 2023, Harper made only one trip to the injured list last season due to a low-grade hamstring strain. He played through wrist and elbow discomfort later in the campaign, which led to 30-game homerless drought. A two-time MVP and eight-time All-Star, Harper is still in search of that elusive World Series title, and that will be his and the Phillies' primary motivation in 2025. Expect well-rounded production around some missed time over the course of the long season.
We enter a new realm for Harper on draft day as we are forced to consider him as part of the first base pool now as he lost his outfield eligibility last year and with the announced divestiture from Rhys Hoskins, maybe permanently. Harper got off to an expected slow start in the power department coming off his surgery with just five homers through the end of July before he got red hot over the final two months with 16 homers and 41 RBIs capped with a 10 homer August around a .361 average. Once Harper got into his groove, everything fell back into place and he was his normal self as the final numbers show. We can excuse his lowest slugging percentage since 2018 to the post-surgical rust, but everything else looks as good as it ever was. The next hurdle is him resuming his 140+ game workload after two seasons of falling short of that much-needed mark given his lofty annual draft status.
Harper did not have the elite level of production he had over previous seasons, but 2022 was excellent even in an unfortunate smaller sample. An elbow injury in April would have ended his season if not for the Universal DH rule, but a Blake Snell fastball off the hand put him back on the IL until August at which time he finished the season as the DH and took the Phillies to the World Series. It was announced in November that he would have Tommy John surgery surgery and miss the start of the 2023 season. The plan is for Harper to return to designated hitter duties around the All-Star break and possibly return to playing right field toward the end of the season. Once he's back, he will be UT-only in most formats, and it shouldn't be assumed he will regain outfield eligibility in 2023. The per-game production should remain strong, but his return timeline puts a significant damper on his outlook.
Harper's best seasons are elite, while his worst are merely quite good. Throughout the early part of the year, he was on pace for the latter, as he was hitting a strong but not dominant .274/.387/.470 through June 15. From that point on, he was as good as we've ever seen, hitting .328/.450/.691 over his final 94 games, with his 1.140 OPS over that stretch beating even his 1.109 mark from his fantastic 2015 campaign. He now owns a 164 wRC+ over the last two seasons after posting a 130 wRC+ over the previous four, seemingly shaking the "overrated" label. Harper may not have the elite speed possessed by the players who typically go at the top of the first round, but he's not a zero there either. He was the only hitter with double-digit steals, at least 30 homers and a .300 average. That's the upside for Harper, who's still on the right side of 30, and the downside is still a strong cross-category contributor.
The 2020 season in Philadelphia will be remembered for two things: the worst bullpen modern baseball has ever seen and how the Phillies wasted a monster year from Harper. Harper finished the season with a 151 wRC+ while walking more than he struck out and scoring more runs than he drove in since the opposition walked him in over 30% of his PA with runners in scoring position. His discernible eye was his best friend in 2020 as the league threw him pitches in the zone just 33.3% of the time, the lowest rate of his career. Harper had the pieces in place with Andrew McCutchen and Rhys Hoskins in front of him and J.T. Realmuto behind him, but the league simply decided to avoid Harper in tight situations. An underrated aspect of Harper's game is that he is a safe bet for double-digit steals -- he was on a 20-plus steal pace last year (over a full season).
Harper added 11 points back to his batting average and drove in a career-high 114 runs in his first season with Philadelphia, finishing as a top-20 fantasy hitter. His K% ticked up to 26.1, but Harper improved his barrel rate and posted the highest hard-hit rate of his career. According to Statcast, given the quality of his contact and plate discipline, Harper was "deserving" of 16 additional points in BA and 21 additional points in SLG. Per FanGraphs, Harper had the third lowest soft-contact rate among qualified hitters. The big separator between Harper and other sluggers in his price range: stolen bases. He's averaged 13.25 stolen bases per season over the last four years and has only been getting better in terms of efficiency on the basepaths. There are no questions about his playing time; Harper is a relatively safe investment with upside.
Harper overcame a down first half and the specter of his looming free agency to rank as a top-20 hitter last season, at least in terms of wRC+ (135). Fantasy managers were probably hoping for better ROI from Harper, despite the outfielder finishing with his most home runs, RBI and runs since his 2015 MVP campaign. Rather than his counting-stats production, it was Harper's .249 AVG that was the most significant drag on his value. Perhaps more than his landing spot and the perception of him being an injury-prone player, Harper's volatility in batting average is what makes forecasting him most challenging. Harper raised his hard-hit percentage last season and saw only a marginal dip in barrel rate, yet still noticed a 67-point crash in BABIP from 2017. Now that Harper has hit under .250 and above .315 two times apiece in the last four years, those nabbing him early in drafts should plan to support him with players with steadier batting profiles.
Harper seemed well on his way toward winning another MVP before he stepped on a slippery base in August and suffered a bone bruise to his knee. He finished 16th in average exit velocity (min. 200 at-bats) and 28th in barrel rate (7.7 Brls/PA, min. 190 BBE) according to Statcast, resulting in a .540 xSLG. His strikeout and walk rates both went in the wrong direction -- his BB/K fell from 0.92 to 0.69 -- but Harper hit lefties better, improving his average and OBP against southpaws by 85 points and 31 points, respectively. Harper didn't run last season and that part of his game may not come back under new manager Dave Martinez, and the injury history is starting to mount, but Harper is just a few years removed from one of the all-time great seasons in MLB history. Oh, and he's still just 25. Do not let Harper fall outside of the top 10.
Harper hit .286/.406/.714 with nine home runs through March and April with more walks (17) than strikeouts (13), and opposing pitchers seemed afraid to challenge him, a trend that peaked in early May when the Cubs walked him six times over seven plate appearances in one game. Nagging injuries began to pile up though, particularly to his neck and shoulder, and by the second half he seemed to be a shell of his usual self as he hit just .226/.336/.373 with five home runs after the All-Star break. Harper recorded the first 20-20 season of his career and walked more than 100 times for the second straight year, but the end result wasn't close to what anyone expected. With a full offseason to rest and recover, Harper should be able to come out taking and raking in 2017, and given Trea Turner's emergence and the addition of Adam Eaton ahead of him in the order, health could be the only thing standing between Harper and another MVP-caliber campaign.
After a couple of injury-plagued seasons, Harper's status as the Next Big Thing was in serious jeopardy, but he stayed healthy in 2015 and proceeded to post numbers far beyond anyone's expectations. When names like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams come up as comps for what Harper accomplished as a 22-year-old MVP last year, it's fair to say he had a pretty good campaign. His biggest improvement came not when he swung the bat, but when he didn't. Harper racked up 124 walks in 153 games after recording 155 free passes in 357 games during his first three seasons, with opposing pitchers often deciding their best course of action was simply to avoid giving him anything to hit at all. As he continues his development, Harper could start putting up walk totals that haven't been seen since Barry Bonds. Harper gave him a three-season head start, but he's now right back in the conversation with Mike Trout as the best young outfielder in the major leagues.
Another season, another injury-plagued disappointment for Harper and his fantasy owners. Torn ligaments in his thumb kept him below 400 plate appearances, and even when he got back on the field, he didn't look much like a mythical wunderkind with a bat made of lightning. As the injuries pile up it's understandable to worry that he'll never become the player his draft table sticker price suggests, but don't jump off the bandwagon just yet. Over the last two months of the season, he hit 10 of his 13 home runs and looked much like the batter he was in 2013, and with an offseason to heal his thumb he should be able to come out launching bombs this April. Harper's still just 22 (nine months younger than Kris Bryant, to put that in perspective) with three major league seasons under his belt, and players with that resume are still far more likely to be stars than busts. Once he figures out the whole staying healthy business, the 40-plus home run seasons will come in bunches.
You can't exactly say that Harper had a sophomore slump given that his OPS, walk and strikeout rates all improved, and his counting stats were nearly identical to those of his rookie season, despite the fact that he saw 100 fewer at-bats. However, owners who expected him to have a Mike Trout-like explosion in his second tour of duty were sorely disappointed. The all-world talent and relentless drive to improve are still there, but the big question with Harper is whether last season's injuries were a direct result of his full throttle playing style or simply bad luck. Given the potential rewards, it's hard not to gamble on the latter.
The most amazing thing about Harper's basically unprecedented rookie season may not have been the raw numbers he put up, ridiculous as they were for a teenager in the majors, but the maturity he displayed. The kid who drew criticism in the minors for blowing kisses at opposing pitchers impressed everybody (including stodgy old-timers like Chipper Jones) with his respect for the game and his place in it, and no one has ever questioned Harper's drive to succeed. If his mental tools turn out to be as impressive as his physical ones, there may be no real ceiling on what he can accomplish. Of course intangibles do not win you fantasy championships, but building around 19-year-olds whose only meaningful comps are Hall of Famers like Ty Cobb, Al Kaline and Mel Ott just might.
Harper spent most of 2011 in Low-A Hagerstown putting up an impressive .318/.423/.554 line with a .436 wOBA and 14 home runs. He finished the season playing 37 games for Double-A, but was not as successful posting a wOBA of .332. His strikeout rate of 19.2 percent needs to improve as his batting average might fluctuate due to BABIP. His season was cut short in Double-A because of a hamstring injury, but Harper returned from that ailment and hit .333/.400/.634 with six homers and 26 RBI over 25 games in the Arizona Fall League. Nationals manager Davey Johnson made a point in December to say that Harper has an opportunity to break camp as a big leaguer, but additional time at Double-A or Triple-A could be on tap before a midseason call to Washington.
The first overall pick in 2010 did what he could to live up to the hype in a brief Arizona Fall League stint, hitting .343/.410/.629 in 35 at-bats, an impressive performance for an 18-year-old facing advanced competition. His 4:11 BB:K ratio gives a good indication of what Harper needs to work on when he begins his pro career in earnest at A-ball, but his mammoth power and uncanny hitting instincts could land him in Double-A before the season is over. The Nationals have no reason to rush him, of course, but the cocky youngster doesn't seem inclined to give them that option. A normal 18-year-old would be looking at something like a late 2013 big league debut, but with a once-in-a-generation talent like Harper we strongly suggest you bet the under on that.
Signed a five-year deal worth a guaranteed $9.9 million with the Nationals in August 2010.
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Goes yard twice in big win
1BPhiladelphia Phillies
May 6, 2026
Harper went 3-for-4 with a walk, two home runs, three runs scored and three RBI in Tuesday's 9-1 win over the A's.
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Supplies lone run with homer
1BPhiladelphia Phillies
May 4, 2026
Harper went 3-for-4 with a solo home run and a double in Monday's 1-0 win over the Marlins.
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Racks up four RBI in victory
1BPhiladelphia Phillies
April 25, 2026
Harper went 2-for-3 with a walk, two runs and four RBI in an 8-5 extra-inning win over Atlanta on Saturday.
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Homers in loss Friday
1BPhiladelphia Phillies
April 24, 2026
Harper went 1-for-5 with a solo home run in Friday's 5-3 loss to Atlanta.
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Homers during loss
1BPhiladelphia Phillies
April 21, 2026
Harper went 1-for-4 with a two-run home run in Tuesday's 7-4 loss to the Cubs.
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Bothered by trade talk
1BPhiladelphia Phillies
October 26, 2025
Harper is bothered by the trade talk surrounding him ahead of the offseason, according Matt Gelb of The Athletic. "I have given my all to Philly from the start," Harper told Gelb. "Now there is trade talk? I made every effort to avoid this. It's all I heard in D.C. with the Nationals. I hated it. It makes me feel uncomfortable."
Analysis
Harper hasn't been traded before, as he left Washington to join the Phillies in free agency. Still, it seems the star first baseman doesn't like the distractions that come with these sorts of rumors, although GM Dave Dombrowski has since clarified that the organization has no intention of trying to move the 33-year-old. Harper highlighted his decision to avoid having an opt-out clause in his deal when he originally signed with Philadelphia, over the objections of his agent Scott Boras, and it doesn't seem like he has any intention of waiving the no-trade clause that came when he gained 10-and-5 rights with the club. Harper hit 261/.357/.487 with 27 home runs across 580 plate appearances in 132 regular-season games in 2025 while dealing with a wrist issue, and he's 37 homers shy of reaching 400 for his career.
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