Every year, MLB teams pay into a pool of cash set aside to reward younger players – those who’ve not yet reached their arbitration years – for the value they provide in a given season. It was a nod in the last Collective Bargaining Agreement to the fact that pre-arb players do so much for a team, but receive so little compensation, relatively speaking.
The payout is based on a combination of factors, from awards recognition to WAR calculations, and it comes from the collective pool, not any individual team.
The Associated Press today published the full list of players receiving a payout from the pre-arb bonus pool, and three Chicago Cubs are getting a nice early Christmas bonus:
Pete Crow-Armstrong: $1,206,207
Cade Horton: $858,806
Michael Busch: $483,708
For each of PCA and Horton, those payouts are more than their regular season salary. This is a big deal for players we assume will go on to earn a whole lot more in their careers, but you never know what could happen. Even for Michael Busch, who is emerging later in his 20s than your typical youngster, the smaller figure is a nice bonus for a guy whose career earnings might be a little lower than you’d otherwise expect for a 27-year-old coming off of a star-making season.
(Also, the even bigger after-season bonus boost for Horton is the full year of service time he got for finishing second in the Rookie of the Year voting – that could wind up worth millions down the road, as he’ll reach free agency a full year earlier than he would’ve otherwise.)
Busch and Crow-Armstrong will be eligible for arbitration after the 2026 season, while Horton will be arbitration-eligible after 2027.
I wonder how close Matt Shaw was to making the cut. Shaw’s 1.5 WAR at FanGraphs was actually higher than some of the players at the very bottom of the list who received a couple hundred grand, and his 3.1 WAR at Baseball-Reference was MUCH higher than some of the others. Not quite sure what happened there.
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