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Originally Posted by HarryLime
I disagree. Baseball card values don't move based on what you're doing or what you just did, they move on what collectors' imaginations can extrapolate for the future. Values increase based on potential.
Winning an MVP, hitting a GW homer in the playoffs, winning a World Series, none of those would result in significant price increases in the immediate aftermath.
What happens is when, later on, collectors start firing up their imaginations and think "He's already done X, Y, and Z at the age of whatever, what if he comes out even better next season and repeats and then we're talking about 2 X, 2 Y, and 2 Z!"
Create thread. Posters pour gasoline on the fire. Prices shoot up in the offseason.
When a large enough group of collectors can agree that a specific player is going to have a future performance that is excellent, that will increase values much more than the player actually accomplishing the imagined performance.
Arthur
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I remember when Soto and the Nationals were winning the WS, Soto was ripping the ball and potentially headed to a WS ring & WS mvp. His prices barely moved, if at all! A deep run, WS title and hitting the cover off the ball in key moments did almost nothing in that moment, for his cards.
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