Bryce Harper, in case you haven’t heard, has a fair amount of his future resting on this season. Like, $400 million dollars, if one was to put a number on it.
That said, to prove he’s worth such an obscene contract (the MLB economic system: it WORKS!), he does need to have one of the more stellar seasons of his career — think 2015, when he hit 42 home runs, drove in 99 runs, and was worth 9.5 fWAR.
He’s come close to that number in other years at periods, or for entire seasons until injury (think last year), but has still yet to put up that full season of dominance like he did in 2015, which would assumedly ensure his massive payday.