Top 5 current baseball players to collect/invest

[tyrith]

Originally Posted by johnlocke36

There are are points here (1) If you were forced to buy a card of a player and hold it for exactly 10 years then yes Ohtani will likely outperform any other active players (id prob take rare mantle over ohtani for 10 years).

(2) if you said here is $1,000 or 10,000 to spend on cards right now, turn that into as much money as possible in 10 years there is a 0% chance you would park your money into Ohtani. you would just flip guys for next 10 years and massively outperform Othani market

(3) If you said here is 1 million dollars and you are forced to spend it on baseball cards and hold those for 10 years, then yes a lot of that money would go into Ohtani.

Tbh, I actually don't agree that Ohtani will outperform any other active players. We're talking him going from age 31 to retirement; he's already peaked out. The issue is that it's hard to know which of the active players is going to be the generational guy AFTER Judge and Ohtani. BWJ is the most obvious possibility, but more likely we've got a 1st to 3rd year type that's going to erupt out of no where. Maybe Kurtz is the next Albert Pujols. Just impossible to say.

Ohtani is a much safer bet to not have the rear end fall out of his market, that part is 100% true. His status as a unique legend has been cemented already.