World Series runner-up buys Clearwater shopping center

The Philadelphia Phillies aren’t getting a World Series ring, but the team is getting a piece of property next to its training facility in Clearwater. And by get, we mean it paid $22.5 million for the retail development, about $3.5 million less than what it pays for a year of Bryce Harper’s services.

According to the commercial real estate firm Avison Young, an affiliate of the team bought the 13-acre, 134,362-square-foot Clearwater Collection retail center next to BayCare Ballpark at 21800 U.S. Highway 19 N. The property was a distressed asset that went into bankruptcy and the sale was handled by the firm and the court-appointed receiver.