In the case of MLB's star players, two important factors determine how they are expected to perform.
Past success and the value of their contract.
Both serve to set an expectation for their on-field product. Each year, there are those whose surprisingly stellar play increases their stardom and others whose poor play brings their status among the game’s elite into question.
Both cases are rampant each baseball season. The 2015 season was no different.
For those star players who disappointed, the 2016 season allows them to start anew. A player may have recovered from injury this offseason. Another might have changed teams. There are those who could have fixed their mechanics.
Regardless, winter allows players to correct the wrongs from the previous season.
The 2016 season will provide us with a handful of players who used this past winter as a springboard to bounce back from their disheartening 2015 campaigns. Many of them are poised to have bigger seasons than anyone thinks they will.
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