Player Profile: Bryce Harper
Did Nolasco think that Bryce hammering the first hanging curveball in the middle of the plate was a fluke?
I based my decision to do Bryce’s update first on the popularity of his Player Profile. With that strategy, Trout will be next and we’ll move down the list in April.
Bat
Marucci Custom CU7 Maple (unavailable, other Marucci cuts available)
Source: Rob Carr/Getty Images North America
Bryce is swinging a Marucci CU7 as you can see in the photo above. You might be curious as to where the “CU7″ comes from. According to our source, the CU7 stems from Chase Utley’s many customizations with Marucci: “Utley and Harper are close. Chase often gives him bats and sometimes Bryce request bats with Chase’s name on them.”
The bat seen in the feature is from last season, and the “SHRH” are his parents’ initials. The measurements of that bat were 33.5 inch/31.2 ounce. As for this year’s bat above, you can see the rosin/pine tar combo as Bryce opted to leave this bat’s handle untaped. Bryce also swung some Chandler in spring, though it is yet to be seen whether he’ll bring the gold “C” out in a regular season game.
Source: @bharper3407
Source: John McDonnell/The Washington Post
The bats seen in the photo above are the DTM7E and the CC13E, both maple with 24k gold trademarking. Custom Chandler bats are available online through Chandler’s twitter.
Batting Gloves
Under Armour Exclusives (we can’t find any info on these, other UA styles available, including Bryce’s Epic gloves from the UA commercial we broke down recently)
Source: Rob Carr/Getty Images North America
All we can really say about these is that they look reminiscent of the Under Armour Natural II’s that Bryce wore last year with the number underneath the UA logo and similar strap (see his aways in the Chandler pic above). If anyone has anything to add, let us know.
Cleats
The great news is that Harper’s unique-looking cleats are available online. The bad news is that Bryce hides them under his pants. I really can’t stress enough how badly I want this look out of baseball. You get a shoe deal, SHOW IT OFF! If I was a shoe company I wouldn’t let my guys wear pants lower than the ankle.
What’s really interesting to me, and what we’ve seen a lot of, is that Bryce wears molded cleats (below). Why so many pros are going this route I do not know, but its worth looking into. Unfortunately, the Spine Highlight is not available to us as a molded cleat.
Source: Win McNamee/Getty Images North America
Headphones (Why not?)
Beats by Dre Pro in Red
Also in that pic, he’s wearing what looks like some classic Ray-Ban Wayfarers, also available online.
Casual Shoes (Too far?)
I’m sure Bryce has a closet full of kicks, but we did see this on his Twitter:
Those are the Vans SK8-HI in black, available online.
Glove
Akadema Apache ABH-1034 (available with Bryce’s red-lacing customization and standard black lacing) and Pro Precision AMR-34 (grey is available via the Akadema custom builder, but the color looks lighter than Bryce’s)
Our Bryce Harper glove update for 2013 features our first possible instance of knowing what a player will be wearing before he wears it.
We spoke with Akadema this week and the AMR-34 model you see in the feature is what Bryce has requested from Akadema. We were told that Akadema is currently breaking the glove in for Bryce, which is traditionally what they’ve done. Meanwhile, Bryce has been wearing two different Apache Series model ABH1034s. One is grey and you can see a nice photo of it in the hitting portion of Harper’s profile. The more recent Apache has been the black one:
Source: @akademapro
Here’s a very nice “Making of” video of the Akadema Patriot Series USA134H, a glove that Bryce never wore (not that we saw), but still worth a look.
Sunglasses
Oakley Radar Pitch Straight Stem (available via Oakley’s custom builder with the specs below)
Frame: Pearl White (Straight Stem)
Lens: Fire Iridium Pitch
Icon: Gunmetal
Earsock: Black
Source: G Fiume/Getty Images
Bryce looks like he’s going with a much more understated approach this year, losing the Phiten necklace and the bad haircut in favor of a classier look. His sunglasses follow suit, going with some pretty standard Radars that you see above. However, we did see him in a flashier set in spring, the Under Armour Phenom in white, seen here:
Source: Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images
We like these better—and they’re available online.
Check out our other Bryce posts:
Under Armour Commercial Broken Down WPW-Style
WPW Forums
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on Akadema’s website, there’s a custom glove builder, can you maybe build a model and hook us up?
August 15, 2012 at 11:13 am
do you know what pros use as wrist tape oh, and harper now has the the highlight batting glove
April 29, 2013 at 5:22 pm
Ive seen Harper wearing the camo evoshield
http://ckelly.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c562353ef017743e0e7eb970d-500wi
August 17, 2012 at 8:29 am
He also has the matching cleats
http://ckelly.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c562353ef017743e0e7eb970d-500wi
August 17, 2012 at 8:33 am
Can you please find out which batting gloves Bryce Harper used during high school? and during his summer league at Westmoore High School?
February 13, 2013 at 4:00 pm
For harpers akadema he has two color ways. He had one for away games and home games. For games on the road he had a grey base and laces, and a white binding and stitching. For home games harper uses a lat of different gloves. He mainly uses a black base, red binding, and white stitching. His other nes he uses for homegames are hard to find but with whatever he uses if its not the black one its in red white and blue.
February 22, 2013 at 7:57 am
harper switched his bats to chandler for this year.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDzikOvCQAAbOLg.jpg:large
February 23, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Hey Rusty, thanks for the comment. Guys do a lot of experimenting in spring so we’ll keep an eye on this and see if Bryce sticks with it. Good find, though.
February 25, 2013 at 9:06 am
Mike, Harper’s now wearing UA’s new Spine highlight, in an exclusive black and red colorway. Just lettin’ ya know.
March 2, 2013 at 9:15 am
Hey Nick, I appreciate you sharing that info. My strategy is I’m going to wait for opening day to start making definitive changes to player profiles because I don’t want to jump the gun since guys do a lot of experimenting in Spring.
March 2, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Bryce is wearing new sunglasses. They look like radars but they arent quite. Take a look at the baseball tonight nationals segment on espn.com. They look pretty cool.
March 6, 2013 at 5:22 pm
also, Can you do a Profile on Wil Myers?
March 8, 2013 at 4:35 pm
Hey Mike. My friend just got to tour a chandler bat warehouse because he plays with chandler for tournament baseball. He showed me a lot of cool pics and I found Bryce Harper’s bat very interesting. It was a 38 inch 34 ounce bat. Crazy right?
March 18, 2013 at 11:42 am
What does the CU7 stand for?
April 3, 2013 at 5:51 pm
good question. we just answered that in the post. check it out
April 3, 2013 at 6:09 pm
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Where can I find Chandler bats online?
April 28, 2013 at 11:46 am
In the pic above with the spine highlight cleats it looks like the front half are metal and the back half are molded to me. Worth taking a look at maybe?
May 8, 2013 at 12:32 pm
What kind of shirt is Harper wearing under his jersey? I know it’s probably nike or under armour but it looks like a 3/4 sleeve shirt. Did he cut the sleeves off of a long sleeve shirt or did it come like that?
May 11, 2013 at 12:24 pm
Harp has been also using the camo evoshield elbow guard, and a pink one today on mothers day.
May 12, 2013 at 5:29 pm
Last night with harpers return he was using a rawlings h web fastback all black. I’m pretty sure it was a hoh and it was all leather.
May 21, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Hey does anyone know the undershirts all the mlb players are wearing? are they 3/4 sleeve or long and just rolled up? everyone keeps saying nike pro combat but which ones. if someone could put a link to one that would help a lot. thank so much
May 22, 2013 at 6:19 pm