Bryce Harper

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[calsnowskier]

Trout is clearly better. The discussion is over.

 

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[BigRedMoe]

He's a bad, bad man. I'm a fan.... until he becomes a Spankee.

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

He's a bad, bad man. I'm a fan.... until he becomes a Spankee.

Thats how we like it

 

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[SlinkyRedfoot]

 

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[Indrid Cold]

Harper is in a monster slump...for the last 4 weeks, his split is .181/.431/.278.
He is getting pitched around a lot, as evidenced by the high OBP (33 walks in 109 PAs), but he hasn't done anything when teams have come after him, either.
I remember that Bill James wrote that he thought George Brett had an off year in '81 because he demonstrated to all of baseball that he was likely to kill even great fastballs with his huge HR off Gossage in the '80 ALCS (as well as hitting .390 that year)...he saw almost entirely junk after that and it took him a while to adjust. Have pitchers completely changed their approach with Harper, or is he just not hitting? Haven't seen any of his recent games.

 

[BigRedMoe]

Harper is in a monster slump...for the last 4 weeks, his split is .181/.431/.278.
He is getting pitched around a lot, as evidenced by the high OBP (33 walks in 109 PAs), but he hasn't done anything when teams have come after him, either.
I remember that Bill James wrote that he thought George Brett had an off year in '81 because he demonstrated to all of baseball that he was likely to kill even great fastballs with his huge HR off Gossage in the '80 ALCS (as well as hitting .390 that year)...he saw almost entirely junk after that and it took him a while to adjust. Have pitchers completely changed their approach with Harper, or is he just not hitting? Haven't seen any of his recent games.

That split makes me wonder what the biggest difference between Avg. and OBP was for an entire season.

 

[Indrid Cold]

That split makes me wonder what the biggest difference between Avg. and OBP was for an entire season.

I'd guess that would be Bonds' 232 walk season.

 

[navamind]

Harper's BABIP is just .235. His career average is .326. And yet, he still has a .432 OBP and .536 SLG%. Imagine what those numbers could look like when his BABIP normalizes.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Harper's BABIP is just .235. His career average is .326. And yet, he still has a .432 OBP and .536 SLG%. Imagine what those numbers could look like when his BABIP normalizes.

Dead sexy, that's what.

I hope, for my fantasy team's sake, that it happens sooner rather than later. My team is fucking STACKED and I want the championship.

 

[apachef4]

Harper is in a monster slump...for the last 4 weeks, his split is .181/.431/.278.
He is getting pitched around a lot, as evidenced by the high OBP (33 walks in 109 PAs), but he hasn't done anything when teams have come after him, either.
I remember that Bill James wrote that he thought George Brett had an off year in '81 because he demonstrated to all of baseball that he was likely to kill even great fastballs with his huge HR off Gossage in the '80 ALCS (as well as hitting .390 that year)...he saw almost entirely junk after that and it took him a while to adjust. Have pitchers completely changed their approach with Harper, or is he just not hitting? Haven't seen any of his recent games.

Right now, I think he's just not hitting well. He's getting some pitches to hit, but not doing much with them. He's definitely slumping. I think it is in part because he was pitched around so much. We've all seen it, hitting tends to be streaky, and teams basically just completely took the bat out of his hands. Now, I believe he was cooling off before the Cubs series, where Maddon just said "Yeah, he gets nothin' " and that just exacerbated it, because he couldn't swing his way out of it.

It's something he's going to have to learn, you may not get much to hit, but you have to make them pay when they make a mistake or they do come after you. Hopefully he figures it out sooner rather than later.

 

[BigRedMoe]

He's getting the day off today to "clear his head".

 

[Villain]

Mike Trout is currently leading MLB in fWAR, has the edge in OPS over Harper (Harper better OBP, Trouty better SLG), and a has commanding lead in wRC+ 176 to 147.

Harper has 21 more walks than Trout, but if you discount IBB for both players, the lead is almost cut in half and shrinks to 11.

 

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[navamind]

.338/.444/.641 with a 174 wRC+ so far in 2017. Not quite 2015 caliber, but still pretty freaking good.

Also, come back @Villain.