{"id":10547,"date":"2015-05-07T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2015-05-07T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:44:13","slug":"still-think-hes-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10547","title":{"rendered":"Still think he’s “overrated?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yup;<\/a>

Yup; very overrated. Sarcasm. Photo: Sports Illustrated<\/p><\/div>\n

Prior to the season, MLB’s players were polled and our own Bryce Harper<\/strong> was voted “most overrated<\/a>.”\u00a0 Over Yasiel Puig<\/strong>, for the second year in a row, that both players were listed 1-2.<\/p>\n

You know what I think?\u00a0 I think that vote should actually be called, “Players you’re most jealous of because they’re incredibly good and accomplished at a young age.”\u00a0 It isn’t Harper’s fault that he was asked to be on the cover of SI at the age of 16.\u00a0 And it isn’t Puig’s fault that he’s burst onto the scene and has posted a career OPS+ of 150<\/a> (!! even I didn’t know it was that high) so far at the age of 24.<\/p>\n

After yesterday’s 3-homer show<\/a> and especially after his performance last post-season, under the hottest lights and against the best of the best, does anyone still think Harper’s over-rated?\u00a0\u00a0 How many guys are there in the league with that kind of power who also have his defensive capabilities?\u00a0 Not too many.\u00a0 I’m not sure what Harper has to do to “earn” the respect of his peers .. maybe its just as simple as putting together a full season w\/o injury to see what kind of numbers you can put up in 150 games or so.<\/p>\n

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Prior to the season, MLB’s players were polled and our own Bryce Harper was voted “most overrated.”\u00a0 Over Yasiel Puig, for the second year in a row, that both players were listed 1-2. You know what I think?\u00a0 I think that vote should actually be called, “Players you’re most jealous of because they’re incredibly good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[164,1869],"class_list":["post-10547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-bryce-harper","tag-yasiel-puig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10551,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}