The crazy thing is, Harper lived up to his hype. If you just analyzed his stats, dudes production was wild.

Someone did a great pitch track analysis of the trends where they demonstrated down to the week, the moment when MLB pitcher realized, “ok we gotta pitch away from this guy”, and he was STILL hitting good production when pitchers starting throwing scared.

Its just that somehow he was the guy whose flashy hitting never quite got you the playoff runs you needed.

Meanwhile, good argument the slightly less sexy Rendon was that dude you need.

Very good on defense, and they called him Tony Two Bags for a reason. Homie could put up doubles damn near at will.