Could Bryce Harper break Hank Sauer's record?

[hudsonharden]

Suppose the Nationals leave Bryce Harper in AAA for all of 2012 (I know, won't happen). Do you think he would have a shot at Hank Sauer's record for single season home runs for the Syracuse Chiefs? Sauer hit 50 in 1947.

[Honus Wagner Rules]

No. Nats' manager Davey Johnson has a man-crush on Harper. If he doesn't bring Harper to Washington out of spring training he mostly certainly will bring Harper to Washington if Harper has something like 25-30 HRs at AAA in early June.

[hudsonharden]

If he starts mashing the ball, he'll undoubtedly get brought up. But suppose they left him down all season. Could Harper hit 50 HRs in one AAA season?

[StanTheMan]

COULD he?


Yes.

[ol' aches and pains]

I live less than 50 miles from Syracuse, so if Harper isn't on the Nats coming out of Spring Training, I plan on going and seeing this phenom for myself. Should be interesting.

[dominik]

will harper even start the season at AAA? last year he played most games at A.

I would asume that he starts the season at AA and then gets promoted pretty quickly to AAA when he tears AA apart.

[BigRon]

Well, let's see him hit 1, 2, 3 before we talk about 50.

[ol' aches and pains]

will harper even start the season at AAA? last year he played most games at A.

I would asume that he starts the season at AA and then gets promoted pretty quickly to AAA when he tears AA apart.

I imagine that depends on how he performs in Spring Training, but I think he'll be in Syracuse soon enough, if he doesn't start the season there.