Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
It’s a caveat that anyone who’s ever invested or even thought about investing in the stock market has heard. When it comes to investing in baseball players, the same caveat applies. That’s why last year, when Bryce Harper followed up his all-world 2015 season with an all-what-the-heck 2016, questions about his long-term value started to surface.
At the end of 2015, there was talk about how when Harper hits free agency in the fall of 2018, he could become MLB’s first $400 million man. Maybe even half a billion if the planets were aligned just so.