Castellano has it and the Phillies have the National League Championship that

have beaten the Padres four to three and they celebrate on their home term as the Phillies of the

2022 and L-Chance. From W.HYY and Billy Penn, this is your Friday edition of Hittin Season, a Philadelphia

Phillies podcast. My name is Justin Clue, and I write from Billy Penn and baseball

prospectus. My co-hosts, Liz Rocher of Yahoo Sports, will be along in a bit, But first, we're talking with Leo Morganstern, a writer for fan graphs, whose work you may have seen in baseball prospectus,

pitcher list, Sports Illustrated, and SB Nation.

His recent article entitled 12 million babies have been born since Bryce Harper's last home run can be found on fan graphs.

Leo, thanks for joining us on hitting season. Yeah, thanks so much for having me on. I'm excited to talk some Bryce Harper.

Yeah, who wouldn't want to be here talking about how few home runs our superstar Bryce Harper has hit?

And now, now you tell me, if my take is off base here, but according

to my read of your article, what you're saying is we have already seen Bryce Harper's last

home run ever, and the people of Philadelphia should be out in the streets flipping over buses

and throwing stray cats through storefront windows. Is that right?

It's close. I feel like I would make a few slight adjustments to that. No, to be

serious, the take of the article is, of course, that we really don't have anything to worry about.

Bryce Harper is Bryce Harper and we should have expected that there would be a bit of a rough patch

after the Tomajun return, but if there's literally any player not named Trout or Otani that you shouldn't worry about

going through a month-long slump like this, it's Bryce Harper.

Yeah.

So what Leo is saying, don't limit it to just stray cats, domestic cats as well, just go

into somebody's house and grab one.

Everything's on the table here when Bryce Harper's struggling like this.

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