Checking in on the upcoming free-agent class to see who's improved their financial leverage the most and who's likely lost big bucks before hitting the open market.
Once upon a time, Bellinger was a rising star, an NL MVP at 23 years old, an ascending Dodgers legend destined to smash 500 homers on his way to Cooperstown. Then he discombobulated his shoulder in the 2020 playoffs and his production fell off a cliff. The Dodgers non-tendered him before this season and the Cubs scooped him up as a buy-low bounce-back candidate.
But Bellinger did more than bounce back, he hopped on a nuclear trampoline and went zooming into space. The bleary-eyed 28-year-old has transformed himself as a hitter,. That evolution has led to a .935 OPS, and more remarkably, a .328 batting average, alongside Bellinger's typically above-average CF defense.
Nobody has done more to raise their stock this season than Bellinger. On a mutual option for 2024, Bellinger is sure to decline and test free agency where he'll be one of the most fascinating players on the market. If his 2023 had been another dud, Bellinger would have surely begun the journeyman phase of his career. Instead, he's a lock to receive over $100 million this winter.
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