Phillies: Bryce Harper apparently already lost NL MVP

Bryce Harper #3 of the Philadelphia Phillies (Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images)

Some media members are already claiming Phillies star Bryce Harper has lost NL MVP

Pack it up, Phillies fans, apparently the regular season is over. Good news, though, they finished a season above .500 for the first time since 2011!

No, wait. The calendar says it’s August 17. There’s more than a month of baseball yet to be played.

So why is Fernando Tatis Jr. being proclaimed the NL MVP this week?

On Monday, Rob Parker wrote for Deadspin that Tatis won the award on Sunday. It’s a hyperbolic piece of clickbait that also says Tatis is better than Shohei Ohtani, a bold claim that is a conversation for another…