Bryce Harper and Max Muncy combined to hit 71 home runs in 2021. Now they’re bunting for singles. What’s going on?
Bryce Harper was the Phillies’ first batter in the eighth inning Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. The reigning National League MVP had doubled in his first at-bat of the night and homered in his second. Now, facing burly right-hander Reyes Moronta, Harper did a strange thing for a slugger. He squared up to bunt.
Flash forward to Monday. Before their series opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Dodgers wheeled the batting cage onto the field behind home plate. Three left-handed hitters – Max Muncy, Cody Bellinger and Gavin Lux – practiced dropping bunts down the third-base line. In other words, do contemporary analytics serve to help players earn big free-agent contracts, or to help teams win baseball games? Muncy’s answer suggests a conflict of interests – rarely acknowledged publicly – inherent to how teams and players are rewarded in 2022.
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