Is Bryce Harper the most clutch athlete in the history of Philadelphia and is he on his way to becoming the greatest Phillie ever?
"I think you have Mike Schmidt and then you have Bryce Harper, I think he's gone beyond everybody else," Phillies analyst Ben Davis said on Thursday's 94WIP Morning Show with Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie.
"Do you think when it's all said and done it's going to be Bryce Harper and then Mike Schmidt?" DeCamara asked.
"I think when you look at the total package, the 12 gold gloves that Mike Schmidt had and all the All-Star appearances and the MVPs, I'm going to say it's going to be hard to surpass Mike Schmidt, but he's going to come awfully close," Davis said.
Jayson Werth has the Phillies' franchise record with 11 postseason home runs in 40 games. Bryce Harper has nine postseason home runs in just 22 games. Schmidt, the 1980 World Series MVP, has four home runs in 36 postseason games.
James Seltzer contextualized just how special Bryce Harper's postseason numbers have been, historically.
"In Major League history the full list of players with 100 plate appearances, 14 home runs and a .640 slugging percentage in the postseason: Babe Ruth, Bryce Harper. That's the list," Seltzer said.
Jack Fritz, who represents the younger generation of Phillies fans, said Harper is already the greatest Phillie of all-time during last night's 94WIP postgame show with Seltzer.
