Bryce Harper's Stellar Performance Bolsters Phillies' Season

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00:00Let's start in Philadelphia with, hey, look who it is, an old friend.

00:06The first place Phillies, you mean, this is my pick to go to the World Series and I'm

00:11loving life.

00:12And the minute Spencer Strider's arm hurt, I went, oh boy, I think these Phillies futures

00:16look really good.

00:17And so is Bryce Harper.

00:18He has been really good as well.

00:20Look at the last 15 days for him, four homers, 14 RBI, scored 13 runs, hitting over 350 with

00:26an 1100 OPS.

00:28He has been tremendous.

00:30He's also a plus 1200 for NL MVP right now.

00:34And I think that is a fantastic wager.

00:35When you look at the Dodgers, again, there's a little bit of cannibalization that goes

00:39on there between Otani and Mookie Betts and even Freeman to a certain degree.

00:44But it's Bryce Harper's team and everyone's just kind of the supporting cast.

00:47Let's be honest.

00:48I mean, as good as Troy Turner is, as fun as Kyle Schwarber is, all these guys, it's

00:53Bryce Harper's show.

00:55And it's nice for once for the Phillies to actually get off to a good start.

00:59Because the last two years, that's never been the case.

01:02They've been terrible in the first half, and then they get red hot and get into the playoffs

01:05and they're super fun.

01:07If they could just, I kept saying this every year, even this offseason, right, how many

01:11shows we do in February, March, and I just kept saying, if the Phillies could just have

01:14a good first half, they're going to run away with this division.

01:18And the pitching staff has been really good.

01:19Wheeler's been terrific.

01:20Suarez has been great.

01:21I mean, they've gotten everything they needed so far.

01:24Sure, they could add some more help.

01:26Sure, Nick Kessing, Alex could turn things around.

01:27That would be nice.

01:28But Bryce Harper right now has been absolutely tremendous.

01:30And I think he should be more in that conversation, getting a great number.

01:33I know in hour two, we're going to talk about this some more.

01:36But Harper's a guy to be circling right now, because the value is really there.

01:40And he stands alone.

01:42And of course, he has that big profile nationally, which is something you need to win that award.

01:48Because remember, at the end of the day, it's a media award.

01:51So you need that big media presence, like an Ohtani, like a Bryce Harper who's won it before.

01:56So keep a close eye on that.

01:57But man, oh man, Bryce Harper's been good the last two weeks.