 with Bryce Harper having an off-start one of those he's been a streaky guy kind of a slump and then he'll snap out of it When you look at strikeout ratio contact, it doesn't look good gets early in 2019. So Eric What's the big difference for Harper this time around? Well, I mean look at if we go outside the numbers for me The thing is he's always been a streaky guy, right? The difference though is this year. He's playing after he just signed a 300 million dollar deal He's in a new venue. He wants to do well. So I think there is that outside pressure that he's probably putting on himself He's a human being first no matter how much he's getting paid no matter how talented he is if you want to go into the numbers Pictures are throwing him a lot more sliders this year and having trouble with that. You also look at his contact outside of the zone I mean, he's still swinging. He's still got the plate discipline, but compared to last year He's he's missing seven eight percent more pitches outside of the zone that he's going after so, you know You couple all those sorts of things and you you got a bad start, but he is streaky But remember you're stanton a few years ago after he'd signed that big deal with the Marlins and he goes over to the Yankees After his first 41 games Nobody in baseball had more strikeouts Same thing happening right here with Harper. He's gonna be fine. I'm a little concerned 20 multi-strikeout games that leads all of baseball you can tell that he's a little concerned He feels in between in his swings. He can't catch up to the fastball. He's swinging through the slider They're going up and down so there's not a zone that he can attack and I tell you what he just doesn't look comfortable And I agree with you. Okay. I think this is a new type of pressure. He's not in DC where they're not gonna boo him This is a new ball club a large contract. He's playing his heart out But it's it's a tough situation right now because you're telling you have Reese Hoskins behind you carrying a team So it can be done But when you come and you sign that contract and you talk about hoisting a championship and going down South Street Rod Street and all that it's a lot of pressure you put on yourself and I think he's feeling it right now You know to though. He's still leading baseball You're gonna be okay. Yeah, I'll be all right Choked up with it when a guy making that much money is getting picked up. I feel so terrible Just kind of grabs me right He's still leading all the baseball and watch he makes terrific catches the other night. So I'm going to the wall. He's trying. Well, no no doubt Anybody to try I don't want tryers. I want doers, right? No doubt that he'll snap out of it. I know you Know there's little things I see he's going up there with batting gloves No batting gloves as a pitcher you could tell he doesn't have a good feel of the barrel in the zone Guys are slowing them down. They're speeding them up. You've been there. Okay, when you see somebody Right upstairs, so that's why I'm a little concerned I think he's gonna continue to dig one thing only one thing solves it and that's hits You can get all that at a boy. You're gonna be okay You can hit all you want the only thing that matters is if I get a base hit in the game Otherwise, you're looking at your ceiling every night gone and I can't believe I'm more pressure when everybody else is hitting a round To I mean there's still in first place which which is amazing even though we're a quarter the way through the season Let's go back to his we mentioned the line the numbers you saw something beneath that not as impressive Just anytime he gets into the six and you're you're doing okay if you're a cub fan You're grateful. Yeah, you can't be the guy down for striking ten people out But there's a situation that I see yeah, this is my job to continue So, you know, but I saw something today. He threw a ton of sliders and it looks like to me He's afraid to throw his fastball in the strike zone for contact He nibbles a lot so you see a lot of two-two three-two counts without a lot of batters So it's tough for him to get through the lineup twice without throwing a hundred plus pitches So even though he struck out a lot of people against the better offenses in the National League I think they're gonna make him pay for going deep in the in the counts. He's got a trust this fastball I mean my god He throws anywhere from 94 to 97 You have to honor the contact and get some early contact You have a talented defense of athletic defense behind you trust your defense and put the ball in play But I'm still concerned about him, man I still think he's just started in a rotate. Yeah, you can't something you can't count on then the bullpen either apparently this is another example of What you can and can't count on down the stretch. Yeah, I mean you got Pedro strobe out right now and he was So so I mean Kinsley's been their best guy, but You know again you watch tonight and Carl Edwards, Jr. I mean oh yeah He's been really the enigma for that bullpen last year He had an ERA of about a little over two and a half only gave up two home runs was in 58 some odd games and And Joe Madd would use them in late inning situations this year He hasn't he hasn't been able to locate at all So he's walking guys think today with the third home run He's given up and just over, you know four or five innings and that's a real hole Then of course, you know, we're not even talking about Brandon moral, right, right? I mean he was signed last year to be the closer Yeah, I mean there's nowhere to be found and he just in fact Theo just told said the other day He's resuming a throwing program. Hopefully next week. So that's flat ground in Mesa. That's like, yeah And it was Brad Brock who gave up this one