Failure often has rewards and baseball is not an exception as Boston Red Sox right-hander Rick Porcello added into his trophy case the American League Comeback Player of the Year Award. This is often stated as the award any player wishes to avoid since it is either returning from a significant injury or from an abysmal performance.
Porcello already had a far more prestigious reward and that was his being honored as the American League Cy Young Award winner for 2016.
Prior to that Porcello had been “rewarded” with a contract for four years at a total of $82.