Diamondbacks: Market Dynamics V: Performance-Based Incentives Paying Players Like Salesmen

Get ready Diamondbacks fans, it’s Market Dynamics Week here at Venom Strikes, where we explore financial elements shaping the current baseball conversation. Frontloading, opt-out clauses, performance-based incentives, swellopts – understanding the function of these contract elements is essential to tracking the ever-changing financial relationship between players and owners – a bedrock talking point in the contemporary baseball world. Time to see what the hubbub is about with today’s topic: performance-based incentives.

Rather than look only at the deals the Diamondbacks are or are not signing, we are defining some of the terms being thrown around in free agency this winter in an effort to…