According to the editor of Baseball America, J.J. Cooper, because Chourio signed an extension before his MLB debut the Brewers are ineligible for the PPI pick. So if Chourio in fact does finish as NL ROY the Brewers would not be eligible for the additional pick at the end of the first round.
Make it make sense. It’s just so mind boggling stupid. So teams are incentivized to promote prospects, but not incentivized to pay prospects? Just seems like a weird line for those simpletons at the MLB office to draw.
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> Make it make sense.
It doesn’t and I’m not buying it. He goes on to state Joey Ortiz is eligible when by rule he is not (MLB debut with Team A then being traded to Team B voids the designation regardless of rookie status). Ortiz would only be eligible had he not made his debut last year. Not only that, but I’m not seeing anything about extensions in the rules.
To be eligible, Chourio needs to:
✔️ Appear on two of BA/ESPN/MLB ‘Top 100 Prospects’ list.
✔️ Rookie eligible with less than 60 days MLB service time.
❌ Accrue 172 days of MLB service time.
If he does indeed make his debut and is in Milwaukee all year, he will be PPI eligible. Mr. Cooper is going to have to come correct with more than a two month old article that doesn’t even reference Chourio’s situation to convince me to get upset.
Wasn’t the whole idea to … let the kids play and earn contracts in the first place rather than manipulating their service time?