00:00Bryce Harper what this guy has done really since Luis Arise got here has been tremendous I mean
00:07it starts with him speaking up and being willing to move back to the outfield a position he hasn't
00:12played in four damn years not only is he playing that position well he's really been the catalyst
00:17behind this new approach at the plate and the amount of times he's getting on base the walks
00:24I was reading an article from Matt Gelb of The Athletic right before we came on the air
00:28since Luis Arise got here August 4th Bryce Harper has an on base percentage of 521 not only is that
00:38the best in all of baseball Ricky the closest to him is 58 points away it's been unbelievable what
00:46Harper's doing yeah and it's it's kind of funny because I think a lot what do a lot of people
00:51expect of Bryce Harper hitting home runs being the big RBI guy this is not about that right now this
00:57is about just getting on base using gap to gap uh power that doesn't mean going out of the ballpark
01:02all the time it means hitting the ball gap to gap and getting on base but I think this is
01:07I think he
01:09may be the poster child for what this team is doing right now for what they're trying to accomplish each
01:15and every day something has gotten into their heads I know you want to say it's Luis Arise which it
01:20which
01:20is fine maybe he did have something to do with it but something was in the works where they wanted
01:26to change the makeup and how this team plays baseball I don't know how that was brought up it's going
01:32to
01:32be interesting because at some point after this season is over we're going to find out why the change
01:38happened or what occurred to make it happen you think about this and and I will say a month ago
01:44we'd
01:44watch this team swing at pitches two feet outside you know what that that tells me you're up there
01:50trying to guess with with I guess a computer is really what you're guessing with or you're taking
01:57percentages of a pitch that you may get and you're going to swing at it in that count that's not
02:02the
02:03way to play baseball the way to play baseball is to watch and react so watch the ball out of
02:09the hand
02:09react as the pitch is coming uh you don't have to hit a home run every at bat maybe that
02:14is what
02:15has changed for the Phillies because that is what I'm seeing I'm seeing guys put the bat on the ball
02:19and what's the one old cliche we know about that put the ball in place something good could happen
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