Daily News | Bryce Harper is back with the Phillies. How long will it take for him to hit like Bryce Harper?
LOS ANGELES — As Bryce Harper went through his daily pregame workout at first base Monday — fielding ground balls and flipping them into a bucket, practicing his footwork around the bag, taking pickoff throws from a pitcher — Dodgers manager Dave Roberts shouted to him from across the field.“No,” Harper laughed. “I’m just going to [stink] for two days.”Harper does this. Self-deprecation can be a comfortable default mode, especially in the face of fairly remarkable circumstances.
But this isn’t normal, and Harper knows it. He’s coming back from Tommy John surgery in half the time of the average position player from 2010 to 2018, according to a study conducted in 2020 by the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute for the American Journal of Sports Medicine. But Harper is also back this quickly because he eschewed a minor league assignment. He got roughly 50 at-bats against live pitching over the last few weeks. The Phillies even brought minor league right-handers Victor Vargas and Tyler McKay on the road with them to pitch to face Harper last weekend in Houston.
And after he broke his left thumb last June, he missed two months and went to triple-A Lehigh Valley for a two-game tuneup. He went 5-for-8 with two doubles and two home runs, prompting expectations that he would torch major league pitching, too.
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