StatCast noted that none of them were cheap. Last night, Trout hit a homer in his fourth straight game, the first time he's done that in his career. Trout is currently a slightly better baserunner, as evidenced by his BsR, FanGraphs' measurement of baserunning that takes into account steals, caught stealing, and other baserunning plays, like taking extra bases.Ĥ games, 4 home runs for /bWjAjXtSdI Harper's weighted on base average (wOBA) and on-base percentage are better, but when adjusted for parks and other factors, Trout's weighted runs created (wRC+) is slightly superior.īoth players are about the same defensively, according to their dWARs and they've both hit 12 dingers. Harper leads by one-tenth of a point in FanGraphs' Wins Above Replacement, while Trout leads by the same margin in Baseball Reference's version. In fact, based on the numbers above, it seems almost impossible to find any daylight between these two sluggers right now. The margin between these two players, if there is one, is razor thin.
Meanwhile, Trout went on to win his second MVP award, re-establishing himself as the game's top dog. Whether it was a shoulder issue or something else altogether, he wasn't the same player last year, although he was still reasonably effective. Obviously, something was wrong with Harper in 2016. Who was the The Man? Was it Trout, who came into the season as the undisputed king of the game and gave no reasons why he should be removed from the top of the heap? Or was it Harper, who finally saw his talent explode in the way that everyone suspected it would?
Meanwhile, over in the American League, Trout was busy having a 9.0-fWAR season and finishing second in the AL MVP vote behind Josh Donaldson, despite the fact Donaldson's fWAR was a couple ticks lower, at 8.7. We've had this conversation before, and we're probably going to have it many, many times over the next few years: Who's better, Bryce Harper or Mike Trout ?īack in 2015, Harper was on his way to winning the NL MVP award with a 9.5 fWAR and some absolutely insane batting statistics.
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