It’s happened: the Major League Baseball debut of one Bobby Witt Jr., one of baseball’s top prospects and the most exciting prospect to debut for the Kansas City Royals since at least Eric Hosmer’s first game a little over a decade ago.
While it’s not entirely certain that the Royals would not have done so, the new Collective Bargaining Agreement helped grease the wheels for MLB-ready top prospects to debut with their big league club. Thanks to the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, there are is a new mechanism in place—called the Prospect Promotion Incentive, or PPI—where teams can receive compensatory draft picks if a player receives significant Rookie of the Year, MVP, or Cy Young votes before arbitration.