David Huzzard: No surprise Harper is becoming the best player in baseball

We're going to talk about Bryce Harper. I know by this point you've read hundreds upon hundreds of articles about Harper, but I'm going to write yet another one and like most of them this will contain no new information or provide you with any insight. It is very likely that you already know that Harper is great, and there is a reason he is the most talked about Nationals player and becoming the most talked about baseball player. There is a chance that by the end of the year Bryce Harper will be the best in the world at what he does and what he does is smash the snot out of baseballs.

Harper was the National League MVP in 2015. There was a big debate toward the end of the season whether someone on a non-playoff team should win the MVP award. That turned out to be a joke of a debate as Harper won the NL MVP award unanimously. That means every single person that had a vote voted for him. Some debate, huh? Harper was great in 2015: He hit .330/.460/.649 while smacking 42 home runs and driving in 99 runs. It was one of the best offensive seasons in baseball history and the best in baseball since Barry Bonds retired.

On our season-end podcast back in October, there was a short debate on if Harper had reached his zenith or if he would regress to the mean in 2016. Then one of our guests chipped in that they thought Harper still had room to improve. It's kind of hard to improve on one of the best seasons in baseball history, so most of us didn't think that was the case. It looks like most of us were wrong as Harper is hitting .327/.417/.837. Look at that slugging. I mean that in all seriousness. Just stop reading this right now, go to Baseball-Reference.com or FanGraphs.com and just stare at that slugging. It is intoxicating. I wish it were Jayson Werth, Michael A. Taylor, and Danny Espinosa's OPS. Bryce Harper is slugging more than Ryan Zimmerman's career OPS, and Zimmerman has had a fine career.

Let's face it: Harper is here to stay. I'm referring simply to stardom here, but I wish I were referring to here as in a Washington Nationals uniform, the Lerners presenting Harper with a cartoonly-large check for half a billion dollars tomorrow and he'd be a National for the rest of his life. The good thing about Scott Boras being a players' agent is there isn't any mystery as to what it's going to take to keep them. Give Harper more money than Brad Pitt and he's a National for the rest of his life.

Harper is the headline, he is the clickbait and by the end of the year, he will both revive and bury the Mike Trout vs. Bryce Harper debate. Harper is smashing the snot out of baseballs and it doesn't even look like he's hit his stride. Harper is the most fun player in baseball striving to make baseball fun again and we've got him here to watch. 2015 wasn't a pinnacle, a zenith, a plateau or any other word that means highest possible point with impending drop-off. There was no drop-off and it is starting to look like there never will be. Harper is getting better and he's about to boldly go where no baseball player has gone before.

David Huzzard blogs about the Nationals at Citizens of Natstown. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidHuzzard. His views appear here as part of MASNsports.com's season-long initiative of welcoming guest bloggers to our pages. All opinions expressed are those of the guest bloggers, who are not employed by MASNsports.com but are just as passionate about their baseball as our regular roster of writers.