Las Vegas Weekly

Bryce Harper by the numbers

Meet the phenom: CSN catcher Bryce Harper.

Photo: Gretel Daugherty/Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

1: Spot selected in Monday’s Major League Baseball Draft, by the Washington Nationals. Harper is the first Nevada player to be taken first overall.

15.1: Dollars, in millions, last year’s No. 1 selection—college pitcher Stephen Strasburg—received. Strasburg signed a four-year contract with the Nationals last August.

16: Harper’s age when he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s June 8, 2009, issue. He’s 17 now.

2: Years of high school completed. Harper left Las Vegas High, earned his GED and began attending the College of Southern Nevada last fall.

122: Runs batted in during two seasons at Las Vegas High.

502: Number of feet his longest homer traveled at the 2009 International Power Showcase at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays. (That’s pretty far.)

.443: Batting average with CSN.

31: Home runs hit with CSN.

98: Runs batted in with CSN.

20: Bases stolen with CSN.

4: Home runs hit in a single game on May 22—the championship of the Western District.

2: Games missed in the JUCO World Series after getting tossed for expressing his displeasure with an umpire’s call.

341: Comments generated in the first 36 hours after ESPN published a Bryce Harper draft profile online on June 4. Primary topic of discussion: Harper’s face paint.