{"id":641050,"date":"2026-03-24T17:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/641050\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:33:19","slug":"phillies-bryce-harper-is-out-to-prove-hes-still-an-elite-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/641050\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies’ Bryce Harper is out to prove he’s still an ‘elite player’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by MLB analyst and Baseball Bar-B-Cast host Jake Mintz to discuss expectations for Philadelphia Phillies star Brycer Harper in 2026. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube<\/a> or YahooSports.TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I am very interested in Bryce Harper this year.<\/p>\n

He’s probably on your radar duh, he’s Bryce Harper.<\/p>\n

But I think this is a very important season for him at the end of last year, his president of baseball operations, the head honcho of the Philadelphia Phillies, Dave Dombrowski, in a press conference to the media effectively said that he doesn’t think Bryce Harper is an elite player anymore.<\/p>\n

You know who he didn’t take that too kindly?<\/p>\n

Bryce Harper.<\/p>\n

Now, statistically speaking, that might be true.<\/p>\n

Harper had something of a down year in 2025.<\/p>\n

He is kind of inching into his mid to late 30s now at this point, and the question is very pertinent.<\/p>\n

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Is Bryce Harper still an elite baseball player?<\/p>\n

He has been in our minds an elite baseball player since he was 15 years old.<\/p>\n

Is he going to rage against the dying of the light?<\/p>\n

Is he going to play deep into October to make the Philadelphia Phillies World Series champions?<\/p>\n

It would be his first ring.<\/p>\n

Bryce Harper has never won a World Series.<\/p>\n

He’s clearly chasing that.<\/p>\n

He– I am fascinated by everything this guy does, and this year is no different.<\/p>\n

Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by MLB analyst and Baseball Bar-B-Cast host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,7270,4890,1207,554,4,144,25,4216,40],"class_list":["post-641050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-operations","tag-baseball-player","tag-bryce-harper","tag-dave-dombrowski","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116285355588774689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641050","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=641050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}