The 26-year-old professional baseball star agreed to a 13-year, $330 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies Thursday. A report from NBC Bay Area Sports' Alex Pavlocic suggests there was a bidding war, and California state taxes are too high to make San Francisco competitive for Harper's talents. It's another tragic case of some of the nation's best talent and resources being chased out of a community by confiscatory government tax rates.