Last season around this time, Manny Machado looked like one of the best players in baseball, and Bryce Harper looked lost. A year later, it’s as if Machado and Harper are starring in another reboot of Disney’s "Freaky Friday."
Through the end of May, Harper, the Washington Nationals slugger, is one off the National League lead in homers and is among the top six in RBIs, runs, walks, slugging percentage and OPS. He's looking a whole lot like the guy who in 2015 became the youngest unanimous MVP ever. Meanwhile, just up the road in Baltimore, Machado’s scuffling like he has never scuffled before.