No big secret here, but this Bryce Harper kid's pretty good. After slugging two home runs Saturday against the Mets, Harper has seven in the team's first 17 games, putting him on pace for 65-plus. It's probably fair to say Harper will not reach that total, but it just goes to show how little time it has taken for him to cement himself as a high-end Fantasy contributor.
After an up-and-down rookie season in which he needed 40 games to hit his seventh home run, Harper has been a model of consistency this season. After Saturday's game, Harper has at least 24.5 Fantasy points in each of the first three weeks of the season. It's nice to be able to pencil in that kind of production every week, especially coming from the No. 9 outfielder drafted on average.
You don't need a weekly notification telling you to keep Harper in the starting lineup, but it is nice to be reminded that you drafted a stud. As Scott White notes in his Hit Parade column, starting Harper is a no-brainer.