Absolutely no way that will happen. Teams can’t even incentivize contracts with performance bonuses that are based on actually doing well (eg, era, ops, etc) only on participation (eg, games started, plate appearances, etc). The only somewhat break to that rule is mvp, silver slugger, gold glove, etc awards. Bonus clauses can be included for those.Joe Shlabotnik wrote:Easy solution: Pay every player on some WAR-like number they produce each month on top of a league minimum. Make sure the number includes value for sacrifices, moving runners, intentional walks, etc.
Not-easy side effect: Can you imagine the pressure on official scorers and managers in that scenario?
But, yeah, the mlbpa is strictly against performance based contracts. They’d strike before agreeing to something like that.