Silver Slugger Playbook

November 13, 2024
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Bryce Harper makes history with 1B Silver Slugger win

When it started to become a reality that Bryce’s days in the OF were numbered and that he would be picking up a position that he had never regularly played in his life, it would be fair to expect some growing pains. However, that is not Bryce Harper. He stepped into 1B in the latter half of 2023 and of course was immediately great. The offense never wavered and what might be more impressive than the Silver Slugger was the Gold Glove nomination.

Bryce Harper is 1/1. With this Silver Slugger win he becomes the first player in baseball history to win the award multiple times in the OF and then win it at another position; 1B. Everyone knows the one piece of hardware missing from the mantle, but Bryce’s sustained excellence, even in the face of learning a new position, while being the face of the franchise, remains something to be applauded. Bryce remains well on the path for a Cooperstown enshrinement and becoming a top 5 player at 1B in less than a calendar year is certainly adding to the resume. 

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  • Tyles at The Bank

    When Tyles' grandfather emigrated from Maida, Calabria, Italy, he most likely had no idea that he would one day have a grandson who would one day fall victim to the ultimate virus: Philadelphia sports fandom. While intelligent and well informed by most metrics, he has been quite the victim of false prophets over the years. Jerome McDougle, Kevin Kolb, Dominic Brown, Nick Pivetta, Ben Simmons, Markelle Fultz, and not to mention countless free agents. All players who would push his teams to the next level. Unfortunately he will believe again and never truly stop. While being way too overly invested in all 5 main sports, his favorite team among the bunch is the Phillies. You can tell the level of perversion that exists within someone who lives and dies with the losingest franchise in sports history. Philadelphia sports remain the ever present, painful siren in his life. For who? We’re not sure. For what? He questions that on an almost daily basis. A quarter century of fandom filled with substantially more pain than joy, but he sticks with it because…we will always get ’em next year.

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