Bryce Harper

Los Angeles Angels superstar Mike Trout stated Wednesday he's not interested in showing up an opposing pitcher despite comments from fellow sensation Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals about baseball being a "tired" game.  

By Thursday afternoon, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred may have wanted to wash Bryce Harper’s mouth out with soap. Or, at least, rub it down with pine tar.

Washington Nationals slugger Bryce Harper is one of the flashiest and most exciting players in Major League Baseball, and the reigning National League MVP is hopeful his style will become more commonplace.

Bryce Harper doesn’t squat with an exercise ball.

He squats on one.

On Friday, the Washington Nationals star gave the world another reminder of what a freak athlete he is.

A year after winning the National League MVP, the 23-year-old slugger will look to use what he’s done in the weight room to carry Washington back into the postseason.

At 23 years old, Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper is becoming the face of Major League Baseball. He's a three-time All-Star in just four seasons in the majors and is the reigning National League MVP after a campaign in which he hit .330 with 42 home runs and 99 RBI.

What's scarier than Bryce Harper? How about Bryce Harper stacked on top of Yoenis Cespedes?

Not literally, of course, although that would indeed be scary. As a middle-of-the-lineup duo for the Washington Nationals or anyone else, however, it's tough to imagine a more fearsome twosome.

Anybody who has watched Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper in his first four years in the majors knows he has incredible strength.

As this video shows, the 2015 National League Most Valuable Player wasn't just born with the ability to crush 450-foot home runs. He puts in the work in the weight room.

Harper took to Instagram on Friday afternoon to give fans a look at one of his offseason workouts.

It was about time someone made a song honoring Bryce Harper.

On Wednesday, rapper Wale did the honors. Always one to throw out sports references in his lyrics, the Washington, D.C., native included all types of baseball analogies in the three-minute song appropriately titled "MVP."

The beat goes pretty hard, and Wale flows over it well. Here's the chorus:

Got the streets talking, when I swing on me.

Close your eyes, Washington Nationals fans, and picture it: Bryce Harper and Jason Heyward, two of the game's most dynamic young players, roaming the outfield together.

It's far from a sure thing, but it's also not an impossible dream.

The rumor, which dropped as the winter meetings were wrapping up in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday, came courtesy of CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman:

A few months ago, Bryce Harper entered 2015 looking to silence the many doubters who thought he was, at worst, a huge disappointment or, at best, overrated.

If nothing the Washington Nationals star right fielder did throughout his phenomenal 2015 campaign could, him winning the National League Most Valuable Player should do the trick.