From previous reports, Tyler Chatwood ’s Cubs contract is supposed to call for $12.5 million each of the next two seasons and then either a $13 million payment in 2020, or a $3 million buyout.
Sounds straightforward, right? Not so fast, says Gordon Wittenmyer in the Sun-Times:
Because of escalator clauses in the $38 million deal based on receiving even single Cy Young votes in either 2018 or 2019, the Baseball Writers Association of America resolved on Tuesday to consider making him ineligible for its National League Cy Young Award if the language isn’t changed or removed.