Harper makes it real Phillie-dilly

CLEARWATER, Fla. - The news floated through the Philadelphia Phillies clubhouse, absorbed by a group suddenly capable of challenging the Los Angeles Dodgers for supremacy in the National League. The players viewed the information on iPhones with their eyes, repeated it aloud with their voices, disbelieved it with their ears.

"Seriously?" All-Star pitcher Aaron Nola said when he heard.

Seriously. After 117 days of waiting, wondering and tracking the flight logs of private planes, the baseball industry knows where star free-agent outfielder Bryce Harper will ply his trade in 2019 - and for a dozen seasons after that. Harper agreed to a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies which sets a record for the largest free-agent deal in the