2012 Player-By-Player Wrap Up: Bryce Harper

Throughout the offseason, The Nats Blog will look back at every player’s 2012 season to summarize and analyze his performance, and we’ll look ahead to his possible role in 2013. We’ll go from #1 Steve Lombardozzi all the way to #63 Henry Rodriguez until Spring Training. Enjoy. A player like Bryce Harper is going to be recorded in baseball history as a special player, regardless of how he performs the rest of his career. People argue that he is over-hyped, and maybe to a degree that’s true. But the numbers speak for themselves, and they show that Harper is a great athlete, who played a huge role on baseball’s winningest team of 2012, and whose rookie season should not soon be forgotten. So just in case you need to be reminded how awesome Harper’s accomplishments last season were, keep reading. Despite urgings from General Manager Mike Rizzo that Harper would not be rushed to the majors, when Ryan Zimmerman went on the disabled list on April 28, Harper’s time had arrived. He w...