Blue Jays and incentive based contracts: A new era

The Toronto Blue Jays are opening themselves to more incentive-based contracts, which, if done right, could help them to maximize future contract values.

The Toronto Blue Jays new management group has decided to go ahead and try something rarely done by the Blue Jays of old. Mark Shapiro and Ross Atkins recently signed Gavin Floyd to an incentive-laden deal. Incentives can be extremely complicated or very simple, depending on the contract. Teams commonly use them to help control risk.

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