Phillies' Turner Recalls Harper's "Crazy" Reaction To Signing

By Tom Dougherty, CBS Philadelphia

March 9, 2023

PHILADELPHIA -- Trea Turner just got off the phone with his agents, telling them he wanted to sign with the Philadelphia Phillies. Then his phone rang. It was his old and now new teammate, Bryce Harper.

"I swear within a minute," Turner said on "The Chris Rose Rotation" podcast, "Bryce called me. I'm like, 'How the hell did Bryce find out already?' He was just so excited. It was kind of crazy how quickly I got that phone call from him, so that was pretty cool. It just shows you how bad he wants to win and how excited he was."

Turner recalled the story on the latest episode of Chris Rose's Jomboy Media podcast, released Thursday, but the Phillies' new shortstop said Harper "actually kind of left me alone a little bit" during the free agent process.

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