{"id":604092,"date":"2026-03-03T18:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/604092\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:53:18","slug":"the-last-man-in-free-agent-tournament-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/604092\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cLast Man In\u201d free agent tournament winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And the winner is\u2026Bryce Harper!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Last month, with the free agency period winding down, I looked at the Phillies\u2019 free agent signings from years past to see if they had brought in any impact players later in the offseason. From there, the idea of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegoodphight.com\/phillies-analysis\/77285\/the-last-man-in-free-agent-tournament\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">user-judged tournament<\/a> began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While I had some hope that Ricardo Pinto might make a Cinderella run, Harper was always the odds-on favorite to win. Since signing with the Phillies, Harper has taken on the mantle of franchise player during one of the best periods in franchise history. He\u2019s largely performed at an All-Star level, including an MVP performance in 2021. And he also delivered one of the most iconic moments in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now that we\u2019re in the back half of his contract, we\u2019ll see how the signing holds up. You may not have heard this, but there has been some talk that he is no longer elite! Regardless of how the next few seasons go, I don\u2019t think the Phillies have any regrets in signing him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thanks to everyone who voted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And the winner is\u2026Bryce Harper! Last month, with the free agency period winding down, I looked at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,4,144,25,4216,40,72344],"class_list":{"0":"post-604092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","13":"tag-phillies","14":"tag-phillies-features"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116166761445572516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}