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Tuesday, February 05, 2019Should baseball go to a pay-for-performance model?On top of the base pay, a player would be owed $4 million per WAR based on his performance that year. The antiquated arbitration system which rewards service time over production would be completely eliminated. There would be no reason to game the system for service time (except to move back free agency and that could be remedied somewhat by making it either 5.5 or 6.5 seasons of service time to be eligible for free agency). There is also no reason why you couldn’t have a player’s base pay go up as soon as he hits the service time threshold, even if it is in the middle of a season. So for a player like Whit Merrifield in his second year of service time, he would have a base pay of $500,000, but would get in effect, a bonus at the end of the year based on his 5.2 WAR, an amount that would total $20.8 million for a total salary of $21.3 million. Could there be possible sticker shock for teams that see they have to suddenly pay a player $20 million at the end of the year? Perhaps. But teams can mitigate some of that volatility by offering more long-term deals, like the one Merrifield received. Only now those players will have more leverage to get something closer to market value. What about veterans who have reached free agency and are enjoying guaranteed contracts? They can still enjoy guaranteed contracts, but teams should be encouraged to move to a more incentive-based model. Right now, teams are not allowed to offer contracts based on performance-based incentives, instead the only incentives allowed to be offered are for playing time (i.e. $1 million for reaching 500 plate appearances) or receiving awards. Thursday, November 08, 2018Tomase: Overreliance on WAR may have hurt J.D. Martinez in AL MVP vote that’s going to be won by Mookie Betts | WEEI
“There’s no need to lose ourselves any further in those weeds”? The **stats** he uses ignore defense and baserunning. WAR isn’t perfect. While I agree people shouldn’t simply use WAR to rank players for award voting, Tomase’s case is extremely weak and unconvincing.
Jim Furtado
Posted: November 08, 2018 at 08:54 AM | 26 comment(s)
Beats: analytics, j.d. martinez, war Monday, September 17, 2018Sabrblog: What a Drag it is Getting Old
in 2002, 35-and-older plyers accounted for 14.2% of MLB WAR Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66)
Posted: September 17, 2018 at 09:05 AM | 17 comment(s)
Beats: aging, war Saturday, September 08, 2018Ryan Yarbrough has broken how Fangraphs calculates WAR - DRaysBayAnother reason not to use fWAR for pitchers.
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