Bryce Harper Wins ROY, Happy To Be With Jackie Robinson And ... Mike Piazza

Here is an excerpt from the MLB award show interview with Bryce Harper.  Bryce said:

"Just being able to be in the names of Jackie Robinson & Mike Piazza and all the guys that won it, its an honor..."

Haha this picture makes me laugh.  It doesn't seem to make sense to me...

I find it funny that Mike Piazza comes up in Bryce's mind.  Not Willie Mays, not Frank Robinson, not Willie McCovey, not Pete Rose, not Johnny Bench.  Mike Piazza.

Is it safe to assume since Bryce was a catcher, Piazza may have been his favorite player growing up? Piazza won the NL ROY in 1993, when Harper was 1 years old.  But he was in his prime when Bryce was developing into a baseball player and catcher.

Catchers also won in 2008 (Geovany Soto) and 2010 (Buster Posey)

Bryce Harper Reacts To Winning National League Rookie Of The Year (ROY)

Bryce finished off a historic season with taking home the National League Rookie of the Year award.  If someone was my new baseball writer we would cover this in depth.  Instead all we have is a GIF of Bryce going from frown to smile in 1 second:

PTI Files: Wilbon Kills Bryce Harper

In the Oddsmakers game on PTI, Mike Wilbon & J.A. Adande were asked what were the chances that Bryce Harper would win the NL Rookie of the year.  Some quotes from Wilbon:

"My question is, why would you give the Rookie Of The Year Award to a guy hitting under .250?  A guy with the lowest OPS of anybody in baseball since the break..."

Wilbon makes some good points, but here comes the crusher!

"...Under .250, Rookie Of The Year?  Really?  I'm gonna say a 5% Chance cuz there are some knucklehead baseball writers out there that will vote for him." 

JA Adande gave him 60% chance because the writers pick, and writers will like the 19 year old storyline, and the Nats are in the playoffs.  "So his hits matter more than some of these other guys hits..."  Wilbon Interupts:

"What Hits? He hasn't had any hits since the break"

Bryce Harper just got Killbon'd!  Mike ain't lyin though...