#MIKE TROUT VS BRYCE HARPER STATS 2016 SERIES#
220/.281/.390 in his 2011 cup of coffee, and Harper, who debuted the following year, suffered a series of injuries during his first few seasons that held him back from blossoming the way Trout did in 2012. Their transitions from best prospects to best players - a rare feat for even the most “can’t-miss” minor leaguers - have brought a few hiccups: Trout hit a now almost inconceivable. Now, Harper and Trout are the top two names on the 2015 WAR leaderboard, as well as the FanGraphs leaderboard for projected rest-of-season WAR. Meet Mike Harper, a.k.a. Bryce Trout.įour years ago, Bryce Harper and Mike Trout were the top two names on the preseason prospect lists at Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus. Fortunately, it’s not one face, but two, a slightly disturbing hybrid that stared at me from my smartphone screen when I used an app to blend the two best players in baseball. It’s not the most photogenic face: To be honest, it kind of looks like Lance Berkman.
And while advertisers may not have found the perfect, calm-eyed combination of good looks, good leadership, a major media market, and a winning team to take Jeter’s place, MLB has found a new face on the field, one that could become ubiquitous on billboards and Ford ads given time and a title or two. Leaguewide attendance is up by about 500 fans per game.
(After Derek)? The Yankees, who are unexpectedly on track to win their division and make the playoffs for the first time since 2012, have a positive Fielding Runs Above Average total from their shortstops for the first time since 1994. Derek Jeter, the fist-pumping, jump-throwing, grounder-up-the-middle-missing icon who’d been baseball’s most recognizable star for close to two decades, was retiring, leaving the league with a void that countless doomsaying columnists fretted it wouldn’t be able to fill. This time last year, Major League Baseball, like that lady with no nose on The Knick, was in danger of losing its face.
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