No more bonuses

by texasbuckeye on Dec 5, 2007 1:43 PM CST

Starting in 2013 players who have contract clauses giving them money for awards such as the MVP or Cy Young won't be eligible to recieve votes. I kinda like the idea, but it doesn't really affect me one way or the other. I did like the comment by the agent who represents catcher Josh Paul, David Schwartz, stating he thinks the owners put the Baseball Writers's Association of America up to this to save money. Yeah Schwartz I'm sure you write a lot of these clauses representing Josh Paul and Rudy Seanez and I bet it will cost your clients tons of money.

link to article: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3142555

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hahahahahaha! What morons. Good. So, by 2013, those awards really will mean nothing. I hope the agents facilitate the transition. As far as I can tell, the only reason for those awards are for the players to bring the awards to the negotiation table.

This is funny stuff.

by ab03 on Dec 5, 2007 1:34 PM CST reply actions

How can they enforce this?

Aren't specific line by line items of contracts confidential between the players and the teams & league? There should be no way for the writers to know who gets a bonus and who doesn't.

by JBImaknee on Dec 5, 2007 1:51 PM CST reply actions

not confidential

cot's usually has the incentives listed in his website.

http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/

by ab03 on Dec 5, 2007 2:29 PM CST up reply actions

Completely and udderly

ridiculous.

I wish there were more incentive laden contracts, not less. I still wish they could award incentives for wins, HRs, OBP or whatever else the players and the teams agreed to.

"LSB: accept the losing" - Sharky

by DJCahill on Dec 5, 2007 1:58 PM CST reply actions

agreed

I like the idea of more bonuses for individual stats, at least then you could assure that players tried a little harder and didn't act like Padilla, mailing it in and picking up a paycheck.

The only reason I kinda like what the BBWAA is doing is because of the comment from Schilling, maybe giving a kickback to the voter if he collected the bonus. Just don't like that whole idea. But like I said before, doesn't really affect me in anyway, not going to make me stop watching baseball.

And I think someone mentioned before, how the hell will they enforce this? Are they given a copy of or access to all player's contracts?

by texasbuckeye on Dec 5, 2007 2:14 PM CST up reply actions

how bout

incentives for advancing runners?

by SteveP on Dec 5, 2007 3:38 PM CST up reply actions

Simple

Just have every agent put a bonus into every player contract.
Make it for $10 bucks for each and every award the BBWAA gives out.
Then they can choose to just not vote?!?!

by Oracle Galvez on Dec 5, 2007 2:07 PM CST reply actions

and snag a gold glove as a 1B

by ab03 on Dec 5, 2007 2:33 PM CST up reply actions

Bah

He can do that now. I bet he covered first last year as many times as Palmero played first the year he won a gold glove (for 1b).

by BAC on Dec 5, 2007 5:02 PM CST up reply actions

I have another good idea

T.R. Sullivan: He needs to be dealt with.

Put him in a bonecrushing headlock, and as you smack him repeatedly on the forehead, say

"T.R., are you messin with my money? Huh? What's that Sullivan? Are you messin with my money? I told ya before, T.R., nobody messes with my money!"

Then walk off after telling him he's dead to you.

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by Brian Thomas on Dec 5, 2007 2:34 PM CST up reply actions

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by shroomer on Dec 5, 2007 3:02 PM CST up reply actions

the article says...

the AP has been asking for it for the last 20 years. Reading the article, it sounds like journalism ethics run amok. One of the writers gets pretty pompous about schilling making a joke that he throw a kickback to the guy who votes for him in the CY Young voting which didn't sit well with the writers.

You know, because they take their voting so seriously and they never let personal feuds, biases to home teams, and sheer stupidity get in the way of ethics.

by ab03 on Dec 5, 2007 2:32 PM CST reply actions

Fabulous Idea

Hey BGL, how about a boycott all season of beat writers and journalists as a whole and just post comments regarding outings and/or politics to the LSB community. Maybe pitch (sorry for the pun) to some of your cohorts in MLB and see how much the BBWA react to that?

And I'll take a garden chicken gyro please, light ranch.

"But the major difference is where Showalter tried to overthink everything Washington at times seems like he isn't thinking at all. " - rentz

by hillcrest on Dec 5, 2007 3:50 PM CST up reply actions