Kris Bryant and Bryce Harper

[Chi_archie]

Just an FYI that is fun to think about

Bryant is 23 years old and has 60 career mlb AB's
Harper is 22 years old and has 63 career mlb HRs



and Mike Trout at 23 is still the best young talent in the MLB

[The Giant]

Who would you rather have? Bryant or Harper?

[Seaweed]

Harper

[Ra77er]

Probably Harper but that's only because I haven't seen enough of Bryant yet.

[Vegas39]

Who would you rather have? Bryant or Harper?

Bryant

[frogsrangers]

Trout is over rated and will get busted for juicing eventually

At least Harper and Bryant are clean

[Chi_archie]

Who would you rather have? Bryant or Harper?

for the length and amounts of their contracts?

I'd roll the dice with Bryant and his upside for 7 years and at a discount

but for 2015+2016 Bryce would prob be the better player to "have" and only owe a total of 7.5 million (2.5 in 2015 and 5 in 2016)

[Ghenghis Kahn]

Who would you rather have? Bryant or Harper?

trout

[Ghenghis Kahn]

Trout is over rated and will get busted for juicing eventually

At least Harper and Bryant are clean

is that in the script?

[broadway6]

It's to early to pick between Bryant and Harper. Bryant needs at least a year under his belt.

But if the question has to be answered today, how can you not take Harper? He blew up in the playoffs last year when the rest of his team couldn't hit. He's not afraid of the big moment.

[jjgold]

All of them have a zero personality which will not help promote the game… Harper has a mechanical swinging and fails too much

[Chi_archie]

promote the game?

MLB is just about unpromote-able anymore unless you are trying to promote to 50+ year old white dudes or to children that live on any of the dozens of mexican speaking mexicancountries that 25% of the players come from....

mexiCAN countries like the DominiCAN republic CAN be a new market

or even the china-man countries like korea and japan

chinks like the baseball

13 year old american kids, any brown americans, any women?

not so much

[pavyracer]

I'd take Freddie Freeman.

[jt315]

Trout is over rated and will get busted for juicing eventually

At least Harper and Bryant are clean

[jjgold]

Baseball is dead

most people have no idea who Harper is

[trobin31]

From what I've seen so far from Harper his swing has too much slice to his swing which doesn't seem to alllow much of the opposite field. He has a good eye and doesn't chase much, but there is much of the plate he is unable to utilize resulting in popups and flyouts to left field. He has incredible torque amd effort to his swing which I don't feel allows him to keep his bat in the strike zone for long. Harper has potential to be a .290-.310 hitter with 25-35 hr/yrs over the next 10years.

I've only seen Kris Bryant bat a handful of times but I see a much more easy, effortless swing similar to Miguel Cabrera that stays in the strike zone longer which allows him to use all parts of the field. I had heard he strikes out quite a bit. But sometimes that happens in the minor leagues as pitchers can be all over the place and swinging at balls is more frequent.

Gun to my head I would take Kris Bryant. I'm not sure what his upside is but I like the swing and I'm fairly certain of Harpers ceiling.

[Fidel_CashFlow]

Just an FYI that is fun to think about

Bryant is 23 years old and has 60 career mlb AB's
Harper is 22 years old and has 63 career mlb HRs



and Mike Trout at 23 is still the best young talent in the MLB

Who would you rather have? Bryant or Harper?

Matt Carpenter of course ?

[Kermit]

Harper seems kind of douchey.

[packerd_00]

Harper seems kind of douchey.

You got that right

[Big Bear]

Harper.

Lefty bats are more valuable and Bryant is a horrible defender.


Lets see Bryant hit dingers in 1 game at the MLB level.

[Big Bear]

All of them have a zero personality which will not help promote the game… Harper has a mechanical swinging and fails too much

personality? haha why does that matter?

Bryant has that my shit dont stink attitude and pretty boy thing going on

Trout is a typical meat head. Not much to him , very simple person. Eat, Lift , Baseball , repeat.

Harper is def the most flamboyant and has the most flair

[jjgold]

Trout is the best out of all of them

Natural player

[Chi_archie]

Stanton is only 25

[jjgold]

When most kids do not even know who Harper is its time to give up on the game

[upscope]

Bryant

[Big Bear]

Stanton is only 25

yeah but Stanton's swing is kind of long

also he is kind of a pull hitter

rarely does hit HR's to opposite field

[jjgold]

Kids burn baseball cards now in NJ

They hate the game

[Chi_archie]

yeah but Stanton's swing is kind of long

also he is kind of a pull hitter

rarely does hit HR's to opposite field

the black dots are HR's

<iframe src="http://www.fangraphs.com/graphframe.aspx?config=0&static=0&type=s pray&num=1&h=450&w=450&players=4949&posi tion=OF&mt=battedball&ss=2014&se=2014&ch t=battedball&pos=ALL&vs=ALL" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" height="450" width="450" style="border:1px solid black;"></iframe>
Source: FanGraphs

[TheLock]

rarely does hit HR's to opposite field

I think this is incorrect

[TheLock]

I'm still LOL'ing at Freddie Freeman over Trout, Harper and Stanton.


lolololololtrolololtroll

[Big Bear]

good stuff


i like that chart

[Chi_archie]

yeah but Stanton's swing is kind of long

also he is kind of a pull hitter

rarely does hit HR's to opposite field

Harper is kind of a pull hitter

<iframe src="http://www.fangraphs.com/graphframe.aspx?config=0&static=0&type=s pray&num=1&h=450&w=450&players=11579&pos ition=OF&mt=battedball&ss=2014&se=2014&c ht=hittype&pos=ALL&vs=ALL" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" height="450" width = "450" style="border:1px solid black;"></iframe><br /><span style="font-size:9pt;">Source: <a href="http://www.fangraphs.com/spraycharts.aspx?playerid=11579&position =OF&type=battedball&ss1=2014&se1=2014&ch t1=hittype&pos1=ALL&vs1=ALL">FanGraphs</a></span>

[TheLock]

I'm still LOL'ing at Freddie Freeman over Trout, Harper and Stanton.


lolololololtrolololtroll

2011-2014

Freddie Freeman WAR: 11.4

Giancarlo Stanton WAR: 18.5

[TheLock]

Freddie Freeman

2012-2014 WAR: 10.8

Mike Trout

2012-2014 WAR: 28.8

[Chi_archie]

Bryant still looking for HR number 1

Bryce hits two more tonight