Could Bryce Harper move back to right field? It’s possible, but the Phillies prefer to keep him at first base.
“I think Bryce is a first baseman at this time,” president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said on Thursday at the club’s end-of-season press conference at Citizens Bank Park. “That’s what we look at him as.”
When Pete Alonso lingered on the free agent market last offseason, Harper reportedly reiterated to the Phillies and his agent Scott Boras (who also represents Alonso) that he would be “more than open” to moving back to the outfield.
“But I’d go out there to have a guy who was going to play first base and hit 35 or 40 homers,” Harper told The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal.