“It seems every day now someone is making up a new analytical tool to devalue players, especially free agents,” Longoria wrote on Instagram. Trout is not the only player to reap financial benefits from better ways to measure and predict player production over multiple years. All of you 1-3 yr players out there better be paying attention to what’s going on in our game. Players, front offices and ownerships grew into a system that recklessly paid aging players for past production they could not possibly replicate in the new contracts – Albert Pujols is a prime example right now. That system is changing to better value players’ worth and predict production.

Source: Forbes January 21, 2019 17:03 UTC