Baseball is better when Mike Trout and Bryce Harper are both great, so 2017 feels better because of it.
This is really about Harper, because Trout has been a metronome of brilliance. Trout never has had less than a Hall-of-Fame season, and this is shaping up as his finest one. Scary thought for the rest of baseball: Trout does not turn 26 until August, and we might not have seen his best yet.
Harper’s durability and consistency are not in the same class as Trout.