The "Schilling" Rule?

[VA Sox Fan]

Schilling Rule?

 

Link By Nick Cafardo, Globe Staff December 5, 07 11:23 AM

 

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

 

The resolution stems from Curt Schilling's new contract were he received a $1 million bonus for at least one Cy Young vote. The Baseball Writers Association memebership votes on the annual awards. The BBWAA will also notify the Major League Players' Association and Major League Baseball of its decision. A committe will discuss the issue with both bodies at a future date.

 

 

Is Bob Watson a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America....

[Thumper]

Schilling Rule?

 

Link By Nick Cafardo, Globe Staff December 5, 07 11:23 AM

 

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

 

The resolution stems from Curt Schilling's new contract were he received a $1 million bonus for at least one Cy Young vote. The Baseball Writers Association memebership votes on the annual awards. The BBWAA will also notify the Major League Players' Association and Major League Baseball of its decision. A committe will discuss the issue with both bodies at a future date.

 

 

Is Bob Watson a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America....

 

No but apparently he stayed in a Holiday Inn last night... (cheap joke attempt).

 

So now say in 2013, Beckett signs with a 1 million Cy Young Bonus, he will then no longer be eligable for that award? See now this is ********. This is what's ruining it all, free agency and stupid rules. Though it's off the subject, incentives is how they should pay ball players. But no, the stupid BBWAA and Writer's Association is going in the complete direction. Dumb shits.

[cam780]

To be honest the rule makes sense but in the opposite direction. If you want to limit these clauses MLB should be passing the rules banning the provisions and not the writers eliminating them from competition.

 

Think about it - if Beckett lost the Cy Young by one vote and that one vote came from Joe Schmoe in NY who voted for Pedro as a favor because the guy could make 1 mill off of it people in Boston would be going crazy.

 

I would be surprised if Schilling didn't appear on one of the Boston writer's ballots as a number three just as a thank you for being so open to chat.

[.406]

I actually like this rule.

[VA Sox Fan]

Schill checks in on new 'rule'

 

Link By Steve Silva, Boston.com Staff December 5, 07 05:45 PM

 

Curt Schilling wasted no time in offering his thoughts on the new 'Schilling rule' in a blog post on 38pitches.com this afternoon.

 

The Baseball Writers' Association of America voted this morning to approve a resolution in which, starting in 2013, all players that have contracts which include financial terms that are attached to a major awards will not be eligible for consideration for that award. The 'Schilling rule' resolution stems from Curt Schilling's new contract which includes a $1M bonus for the Sox righthander if he gets at least one Cy Young vote in 2008. MLB would have to approve the resolution in order for it to take affect.

 

"Give me a break," wrote Schilling. "Don’t get me wrong, 100k, 500k, 1 million dollars is a huge sum of money. But to think that these guys ever approached this as anything other than them being touted as the ‘experts’ on who wins what is crap. Add to that I seriously doubt anyone ever looked at this from a perception standpoint and thought wow, they are making this guy rich. I would disagree.

 

"The only step that hasn’t happened yet is to stop them from voting on awards altogether. They shouldn’t do it. Anytime someone is allowed to vote on this, on the Hall of Fame ballot, and that person injects personal bias into their vote, they should lose the privelage (sic)."

 

Schilling offered his opinion on various members of the baseball media and suggested that personal agendas are involved when it comes to voting on awards and "writers should have zero say in who wins what."

 

"Trust me, after a year or two award bonuses became totally meaningless to me because I felt that the size of the contract was always the ‘reward’ for winning those awards," Schilling wrote. "They were paying me to win them anyway. I never turned them down because they became and are now a standard part of a contract.The cool thing is that Theo and I managed to turn the bonuses in the last two contracts into things benefitting (sic) Shade and ALS, so it was a win win if it happened."

[Mr Crunchy]

great

the next deal he signs should include a muzzle and a letter of apology to all the iraqi gold star mothers for backing corkey bush in 04..

[soxfan17881]

I don't like it. First, you have to assume that the voting is not already a popularity contest in the minds of some writers. (As in, not voting for so-and-so because he's an ass to the writers.) Secondly, in a world where atheletes are paid far better than they should be (as compared to, say, the folks trying to cure cancer or the folks fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan) I really like the idea of bonuses being tied to performance. That's the way the world works. You're a salesman, you sell over your projections, you get a bonus.

 

Perhaps it would be more fair to base it on something more concrete like innings, strike outs, wins, etc. I don't think the BWAA should even consider contracts or money at all when eligibility or voting is concerned.

[Soxfan1]

I could see a writer doing that just to poke a teams ribs, but I don't think it is a big deal. Other incentives can be made and some team will eventually come up with some kind of loophole.