The first one is money and the second is picks.
Winning ROY or top 3 in MVP/Cy gets you $750K.
The point of the draft pick is to dissuade keeping top 100 prospects out of MLB. There is no incentive to keep a Horwitz in the minors.
The difference between 50 and 200 is less than the difference between 1 and 20 TBH. I get if you're drawing a line you have to draw it somewhere, and 100 seems as good of a place as any as there are top 100 publications, but not drawing a line would be better. Horwitz might be an extreme example sure, but he's never going to win ROY anyway. If Pittsburgh is willing to keep the 90th prospect down for service time, they'd do the same to the 110th player, guys in that range are basically interchangeable. It's just giving needless power to media outlets who like to overrate certain teams prospects, or overvalue draft position. Players outside the top 100 can win, and can be in weird positions to be kept down. Look at Barger for example. He's not a top 100 prospect now, however if kept down all year I wouldn't be shocked if he were a top 100 prospect next year by most outlets, and with his profile and ability to hit HRs, and being on a good team it wouldn't be unreasonable to be in the ROY conversation in 2024 if he's our starter at 3B. With Chapman, and Espinal, and Lopez, and Merrifield and Biggio it wouldn't shock me if he's still a rookie next year as there's not a lot of playing time now. The Jays have more incentive to win than to try to game the system but the same scenario on a bad team rather than call Barger up in August they're going to wait until the next year because some dumb list says he's not eligible for picks now but will be next year. It's just a needless line to draw in the sand.
I don't really understand your first comment. I'm not really concerned what money the player gets. The more the better fine. I'm talking about picks. 1 link says
"A team is eligible for Prospect Promotion Incentive (PPI) draft picks if a rookie-eligible player with 60 days or fewer of major league service who is included on a preseason top 100 prospect list by two or more of Baseball America, ESPN.com or MLB.com is promoted and finishes high in award voting in any year before he is eligible for arbitration. The team would get an amateur draft pick for a Rookie of the Year or a top three in MVP or Cy Young"
The other said " Clubs promoting top prospects to Opening Day rosters will be eligible to receive Draft picks if the player finishes in the Top 3 in the Rookie of the Year voting or Top 5 in MVP/Cy Young voting."
The 1st one makes it sound like Manoah would have got us a pick for last year TBH. He was a top 100 prospect when promoted, and was 3rd in Cy voting as a pre-arb player, and it doesn't specify that he has to be on an opening day roster when promoted. They are saying completely different things. 1 says it's ROY win/top 3 MVP/CY, the other says Top 3 ROY, top 5 MVP/CY. 1 says the player has to be on opening day rosters, the other doesn't specify, 1 says it applies for any pre-arb year, the other doesn't specify. It's confusing. I assume they links were leaks the day the agreement was reached so the info is spotty but they are the first ones you find when searching. Concrete info a year later shouldn't be this hard to find.
