Coming into 2023 and we’re now in Year 2 with the new Prospect Promotion Incentive—PPI for the cool kids—in place from the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
We’ve already covered the incentive in-depth here before, but here’s a quick rundown:
- The hope was to incentivize teams to roster top prospects from the start of the season, a way of avoiding service time manipulation
- Eligible players who accrue a full year of service time and appear on two of the three—ESPN, MLB Pipeline, and Baseball America—agreed upon preseason Top-100 prospect lists have the ability to earn their teams a draft pick after the first round for certain award-based achievements during their pre-arbitration years.