This is how Bryce Harper begins his 10th major league season: re-learning how to throw a baseball. His ninth season ended with familiar torment—no postseason series win—and the new pain of an achy lower back every time he tried to throw.
“It was definitely a different offseason for me,” Harper says. “I took a little more time to heal and get things done that I needed to. The swing, not so much. Throwing-wise, yeah. I’ve kind of re-learned how to do some things with my motion to kind of not put so much stress on a certain part of my body.