Junior Griffey
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Bryce Harper is no Robert Stock, that's for sure.
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I'm confused as to what being Mormon has to do with this.
Kind of sophomore jinx for him and a down year for the entire Nats batting lineup, things should get fixed next year.
He's 8 years away from being in his prime. He's going to grow leaps and bounds if healthy.
Dude has to learn that the warning track is there for a reason
Right now in his career he may not be overrated career-wise. Baseball-reference has him being most similar to the following batters at age 19:
The careers of each of these legends lasted over 20 seasons a long time ago when it may have been more difficult to play into their 40s than today. While Harper is obviously still young, he's obviously not playing like an all-time great this year and has been getting sick and injured. Considering the best indicator of future performance is past performance it's fair to say he's lost some potential as a future all-time great.
- George Davis (930) *
- Mel Ott (928) *
- Al Kaline (906) *
- Ty Cobb (899) *
Maybe he'll wind up having an offensive career like Andruw Jones' if he stays relatively healthy? If so that's not bad, it just didn't meet initial projections some may have had.