DISCLAIMER: IT IS MAY. I know that we’re only one month into the season, and there is no reason to make mountains out of molehills. However, the number of swings and misses I have been seeing from Bryce Harper have been hard to watch. I had also noticed that the whiffs seemed to occur with more regularity than most other Phillies.
As a team, the Phillies swing and miss 11.4% of the time, which ranks 12th in the league according to FanGraphs (non-pitchers). Harper has a swing and miss percentage of 16.