Daily News | As Josh Harrison takes his shot at Phillies redemption, Andrew McCutchen smiles from afar
BRADENTON, Fla. — It looked and sounded so familiar. The name, the number, the roar from the crowd, the crack of the bat, the three-quarter-speed trot with the head angled downward. As Josh Harrison stood on the edge of the infield dirt at LECOM Park and watched Andrew McCutchen pass in front of him en route to home, he couldn’t help but think of all of those springtime afternoons they’d shared on this very same field.But the paths they’ve taken? That’s a much different story.
In 2011, McCutchen began a five-year run that would see him make five All-Star teams and earn four top-five MVP finishes, including No. 1 in 2013. But it was Harrison’s breakout that, in a lot of ways, signaled the Pirates’ arrival as a potential contender. After struggling at the plate his first couple of seasons, Harrison spent much of the first half of the 2013 season in the minors. Then, in July, he rejoined the big league roster and posted a .
Harrison helped to cement that status the following season, finishing second in the NL batting race and ninth in MVP voting while posting a .315/.347/.490 batting line as a super utility player. Despite an 88-74 finish and wild-card loss to the Giants, the future appeared bright. “I don’t think any of us thought it was going to end right then,” Harrison said. “But we knew it was going to end at some point. It’s just the nature of the game, the nature of the way things were going. We thought we could stay together; we wanted to, but at the end of the day that’s not our call.”
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