PHILADELPHIA -- What will it take for Bryce Harper to be elite again?

Among all of the questions facing the Phillies in this pivotal offseason, that wasn’t expected to be one of them. Yet that became quite the topic of conversation after Phils president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski wondered aloud at his year-end press conference whether Harper could return to “elite” status or not .

Harper himself responded a few days later. Even his agent Scott Boras weighed in .

“Give Bryce Harper more pitches to hit,” Boras said, “and the metrics speak that all that they want will be delivered.”

Sure, getting better pitches is part of it -- but that’s also not exactly a new development for Harper.

So what would it really take for Harper to get back to being, well, elite? Let’s di

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