Bryce Harper was never going to take the Nationals’ $300 million offer

Bryce Harper turned town a 10-year, $300 million contract from the Nationals in late September, Chelsea Janes of The Washington Post reported earlier this week.

The offer would have been the second-largest contract of any type in Major League Baseball history, behind Giancarlo Stanton’s 13-year, $325 million deal, and it would have been the largest free agent signing in Major League Baseball history, surpassing Alex Rodriguez’s 10-year, $275 million deal.

But Harper was absolutely right to decline it.

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