Bryce Harper

If you have 300 million dollars to spare, you could sign the baseball player Bryce Harper to your favorite team. He's a great player, one of the best in the game, but he's not worth the asking price. His agent is, of course, Scott Boras. Boras is many things but he's not a stupid man. Harper is many things, obnoxious being one of them. The rumor in the baseball world is that Harper is having a hard time finding a team who will sign him to a long term deal for that amount of money.

Baseball general managers and owners might be getting smarter. Long term deals for millions and millions of dollars seldom end well-ask the Angels about Albert Pujols and the Rangers about Alex Rodriguez. Once the signing is announced the team will usually sell a lot more tickets, but the player almost never helps the team to a winning record.

Baseball is a team sport. One guy can have a huge impact on the team in run creation, but he can't pitch, field, and and hit in all nine spots. While the team that signs Harper will probably get an offensive boost in the short term, it won't be worth the money. At all.