The Bryce is Right, Bitch

[Ding Dong Johnson]

and he sang go cubs go

[badger]

The end of this page is making me happy. not TBS so much.

[Sammy Sofa]

Motion that we stop using David threads until he puts a bit more effort into the thread titles.

[imb]

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Motion that we stop using David threads until he puts a bit more effort into the thread titles.

 

theREALbryceharperin2018thread

[David]

i honestly have no recollection of starting this thread

 

i think it was a bunch of merged threads and i have no idea if i even used this title

[Sammy Sofa]

You can change it now, you drunken robo hobo.

[Sammy Sofa]

[Brian]

and it can get changed to The Bryce is Wrong when everything goes south

[jersey cubs fan]

and it can get changed to The Bryce is Wrong when everything goes south

You mean when he shows up in Mesa for the first time in February?

[David]

i wonder if he and KB will drive down together

[Brian]

i wonder if he and KB will drive down together

 

the viral video will be hilarious in their brand new 2019 [sponsorship pending] while drinking red bulls.

[Thed Hoyerstein]

and it can get changed to The Bryce is Wrong when everything goes south

 

Theo may allege Bryce Fixing schemes by the Yankees

[Hairyducked Idiot]

i wonder if he and KB will drive down together

 

Nice of Bryce to give his friend a ride after the shoulder surgery.

[Cubswin11]

i wonder if he and KB will drive down together

 

Nice of Bryce to give his friend a ride after the shoulder surgery.

Bryce seems like a guy who drives one of those annoyingly big pickups. He can fit Kris’s death bed in the back for him.

[Backtobanks]

So, with no other changes, we'd have:

 

Zobrist (Bote)

Harper

Bryant

Rizzo

Baez

Schwarber (Happ)

Contreras (Caratini)

Heyward (Almora)

 

 

I mean, that lineup *should* score a crap ton of runs.

 

Yeah that lineup is pretty Joe-proof. The most likely way he'll screw it up is if Zobrist goes back to 2017 (or just being 38 years old in general) and Maddon inevitably keeps throwing him up at the top.

 

 

Or he tries batting the pitcher 4th.

[Regular Show]

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[UMFan83]

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Cant wait until he hits 13 HRs in his first Cubs season - and is 2nd on the team.

[rocket]

let's be giant whiny pessimists shall we?

 

bryce harper's average WAR the past 3 seasons: ~3.8

 

here's some guys who had a 3.8 war or better last season:

 

jean segura

ozzie albies

david peralta

tommy pham

scooter gennett

brandon nimmo

jt realmuto

whit merrifield

 

all fine players, sure. but no one i'd like the cubs to throw 100 million at, let alone the $300 million plus bryce is getting.

[David]

let's be giant whiny pessimists shall we?

 

bryce harper's average WAR the past 3 seasons: ~3.8

 

here's some guys who had a 3.8 war or better last season:

 

jean segura

ozzie albies

david peralta

tommy pham

scooter gennett

brandon nimmo

jt realmuto

whit merrifield

 

all fine players, sure. but no one i'd like the cubs to throw 100 million at, let alone the $300 million plus bryce is getting.

 

one of said seasons was 4.8 war in 111 games

[rocket]

let's be giant whiny pessimists shall we?

 

bryce harper's average WAR the past 3 seasons: ~3.8

 

here's some guys who had a 3.8 war or better last season:

 

jean segura

ozzie albies

david peralta

tommy pham

scooter gennett

brandon nimmo

jt realmuto

whit merrifield

 

all fine players, sure. but no one i'd like the cubs to throw 100 million at, let alone the $300 million plus bryce is getting.

 

one of said seasons was 4.8 war in 111 games

 

even better, he's injury prone

[Derwood]

let's be giant whiny pessimists shall we?

 

bryce harper's average WAR the past 3 seasons: ~3.8

 

here's some guys who had a 3.8 war or better last season:

 

jean segura

ozzie albies

david peralta

tommy pham

scooter gennett

brandon nimmo

jt realmuto

whit merrifield

 

all fine players, sure. but no one i'd like the cubs to throw 100 million at, let alone the $300 million plus bryce is getting.

 

one of said seasons was 4.8 war in 111 games

 

and the other two were 3.0 in 147 games, and 3.5 in 159 games (where Fangraphs HATED his defense).

 

He had his one 9.3 fWAR season, and hasn't been above 5 in any other season. He's a fun player who I would like to have, but he hasn't lived up to the hype. Any debate of Harper vs. Trout ended long ago

[David]

let's be giant whiny pessimists shall we?

 

bryce harper's average WAR the past 3 seasons: ~3.8

 

here's some guys who had a 3.8 war or better last season:

 

jean segura

ozzie albies

david peralta

tommy pham

scooter gennett

brandon nimmo

jt realmuto

whit merrifield

 

all fine players, sure. but no one i'd like the cubs to throw 100 million at, let alone the $300 million plus bryce is getting.

 

one of said seasons was 4.8 war in 111 games

 

and the other two were 3.0 in 147 games, and 3.5 in 159 games (where Fangraphs HATED his defense).

 

He had his one 9.3 fWAR season, and hasn't been above 5 in any other season. He's a fun player who I would like to have, but he hasn't lived up to the hype. Any debate of Harper vs. Trout ended long ago

 

He has a career 140 wRC+ and .382 wOBA. His defensive numbers were flukishly bad this year.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

let's be giant whiny pessimists shall we?

no problem!

[Sammy Sofa]

It ain't my money, so I don't give a horsefeathers if they spend a buttload on a guy as cool and hot as Harper. But there's basically zero chance he'd be anywhere remotely close to being worth the whole thing, so hopefully he magically has a couple of those super seasons again and then opts out early on.

[davell]

Manny- .822 Career OPS (926 games)

Bryce- .900 Career OPS (927 games)

 

Manny- 33.8 bWAR

Bryce- 27.4 bWAR

 

Manny- 30.2 fWAR

Bryce- 30.7 fWAR

 

Manny OPS last 3 seasons- .905, .782, .876

Bryce OPS last 3 seasons- .889, 1.014, .814

 

I get why we all love Bryce.....

 

But I'm going to be just as happy if we bring Manny in.

 

In fact, I honestly believe Manny fits this roster better. Because it gives you the other guy you've got to find that can play SS.

 

Don't get me wrong, Bryce is the guy I think is more likely to come here. But, I think.these guys are extremely evenly matched at worst.