Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 05, 2007
Destroying Award Bonuses

The Baseball Writers are taking aim at performance bonuses based on awards:

The Baseball Writers' Association of America voted this morning to approve a resolution in which, starting in 2013, all contracts that have financial terms attached to major awards will not be eligible for consideration for that award.

They're pointing to Schilling's contract in which he gets a bonus for one Cy Young vote. But the conflict of interest is much bigger for beat writers. Some papers don't allow their reporters to vote for awards because they don't want conflict with players. So either players no longer get these types of bonuses, or the vote gets taken away from the writers.


Posted by David Pinto at 02:42 PM | Awards | TrackBack (0)
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Schilling at 38pitches.com rips this, well mainly he rips the writers for not policing the voting (ie a player gets 90% of votes but is left off the ballot) which would have prevented this type of thing. Pretty good read.

Posted by: s1c at December 5, 2007 05:48 PM
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