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Red posted:Even when Harper was the only good hitter on the Phillies a few years ago, Snitker wouldn't pitch around him. I have no idea what the thinking is. Analytics really killed off the IBB, I think the math showed that it was almost never an advantage.  Of course there are certain players for whom math does not apply https://i.imgur.com/JUweneq.mp4
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zoux posted:Analytics really killed off the IBB, I think the math showed that it was almost never an advantage. I don't disagree at all with the data, but I've just seen Atlanta eat poo poo from a spoon held by Harper so many times, I don't see why they gamble with the man.
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One of my favorite things about the postseason is seeing managers go mad in real time and do poo poo they'd never do in the regular season, like yanking starters after a single base hit, IBBs, bunts, etc. etc.
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Red posted:I don't disagree at all with the data, but I've just seen Atlanta eat poo poo from a spoon held by Harper so many times, I don't see why they gamble with the man. He struggled against them in 2021
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Can the Texas power grid handle a 7-game series? Buddy, they won't even let us handle a night of winter.
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Sydin posted:Ah I was wondering why I suddenly started twitching in the middle of my last meeting. The Royals front office made a ton of mistakes after 2015 but resisting the urge to shovel money at Hosmer after 2017 is one of their few good decisions. Thanks for 2015 Eric now gently caress off forever.
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https://twitter.com/mlblife/status/1712563213819367836?s=46&t=qe_Y8YJnNikGLo_JUDPyAQ Imagine hating Bryce Harper
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Bregor posted:Imagine hating Bryce Harper Couldn't be me
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Bregor posted:Imagine hating Bryce Harper Harper just seems like someone who has very strong “douchebag white guy” energy, like a man who has very strong opinions about, I dunno, Entourage and James Franco comedies. He’s right to stare down Arcia though.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I loved Austin at one point, but it’s been ruined by techbros and transplants. It’s become a victim of its own success. I miss going to iron age shows down there. Oh well at least we all have good memories of what it was
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Harper just seems like someone who has very strong “douchebag white guy” energy, like a man who has very strong opinions about, I dunno, Entourage and James Franco comedies. he definitely definitely definitely had a huge ego when coming up, but now he's proved he can back it up and it also does seem to have softened some as well
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Bregor posted:https://twitter.com/mlblife/status/1712563213819367836?s=46&t=qe_Y8YJnNikGLo_JUDPyAQ https://twitter.com/Phillies/status/1712240858316046474
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Please end the Atlanta Braves' season tonight. Thank you.
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No Safe Word posted:he definitely definitely definitely had a huge ego when coming up, but now he's proved he can back it up and it also does seem to have softened some as well He's definitely matured, and says and does all the right things. The word is that he's really approachable in public (people yell his name in grocery stores, and he yells back, etc.), and the owner will go ask his opinion about stuff.
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Red posted:He's definitely matured, and says and does all the right things. The word is that he's really approachable in public (people yell his name in grocery stores, and he yells back, etc.), and the owner will go ask his opinion about stuff. I could see him doing color commentary for the team after he retires. I can't imagine he's the kind of guy who wants to leave the game.
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I don’t think he was as hyped as LeBron was but he was pretty hyped and he’s definitely exceeded already lofty expectations.
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Wasn’t he a catcher in HS?? Haha can you imagine
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harper is a baseball psychopath and a mormon (polite religion psychopath), which is just a fantastic combination of traits and i think it's great the braves have decided they needed to piss him off because the results have thus far been hilarious
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Bryce is a Baseball Psychopath in the same way that Larry Bird was a certified Basketball Psychopath.
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zoux posted:I don’t think he was as hyped as LeBron was but he was pretty hyped and he’s definitely exceeded already lofty expectations. And he's 26, it's crazy. If he doesn't get hurt or fall off the athletic cliff suddenly, he's a first-ballot HoF.
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mdemone posted:And he's 26, it's crazy. I don't think Literally-Will-Turn-31-Years-Old-Next-Week Bryce Harper is 26
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No Safe Word posted:I don't think Literally-Will-Turn-31-Years-Old-Next-Week Bryce Harper is 26 Where's your proof, follow the money
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Larry was a terrible person Is
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Gonz posted:Bryce is a Baseball Psychopath in the same way that Larry Bird was a certified Basketball Psychopath. So, criminally
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I'd adore Harper on my own team but hate that he's so ridiculously good for another. I want him to do bad simply because my team plays his. He can be awesome in every other game. Going back, though I do remember the Sports Illustrated article from when Harper was an extremely hyped high school kid. The way he and his parents handled his talent is one of those things felt really iffy at the time. He graduated high school a year or two early and played for a juco specifically because a) this juco played in a wood bat conference and b) he'd be a draft pick sooner. It's that thin line of: this kid is a once in a lifetime talent and his family is facilitating this dream while cutting out all the bullshit vs. is cutting all the bullshitalso cutting out a key piece of his social development. Apparently the answer is, no it didn't kill his social development. Was it the right thing to do? For him, yes. Was it a path that should become more normalized? I don't know.
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He could have played in the majors at 17 or 16. They were right
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maffew buildings posted:harper is… a mormon There it is
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No Safe Word posted:I don't think Literally-Will-Turn-31-Years-Old-Next-Week Bryce Harper is 26 Did I get buttcracked. Ballsacked. Edit: 
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It must be insane to be LBJ or Harper and have unbelievable hype around you as a HS junior and then live up to every expectation
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RC and Moon Pie posted:He graduated high school a year or two early and played for a juco specifically because a) this juco played in a wood bat conference and b) he'd be a draft pick sooner. It's that thin line of: this kid is a once in a lifetime talent and his family is facilitating this dream while cutting out all the bullshit vs. is cutting all the bullshitalso cutting out a key piece of his social development. euphronius posted:He could have played in the majors at 17 or 16. They were right It was absolutely the right thing for him, because, well, look at him. But there was no way to know that until after the fact, and the risks were significant. I don't think it shouldn't be an option, but I also don't think it should become more normalized. I feel like there needs to be a shitload of societal pressure pushing parents away from that approach, because otherwise you're going to have way more kids being fed into it and burning right the hell out. The barrier to entry should be enormously high.
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mdemone posted:what year is it lmao
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I always enjoyed this blurb from Harper’s SI article ever since I read it back then.quote:It was after one of those player-for-hire trips that Sheri began to understand that her son was really special. Bryce, then 12, was playing in a tournament in Alabama on a field with 250-foot fences. It was a trip Sheri could not attend. When Bryce phoned home, Sheri asked him how he'd done. "I did all right," he replied.
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Haha I remember that now. SI used to be pretty good.
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Popete posted:I was very confused how Bryce Harper was only 26 for a second It is insane to me that this is already his fifth year in Philly
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