Once again, a player talks about incentives for teams to win. This time, East Longmeadow’s Nick Ahmed takes up the idea:

“I think everybody wants the best players on the field,” said Ahmed, the Diamondbacks’ union rep. “They want to see everybody competing. Whether that’s young players who are being held back (for service-time reasons) or veteran players who are being pushed out for some arbitrary reason like their age or some random stat that they’re finding that he may have decreased in. But there’s still a ton of value to bringing a veteran guy into a clubhouse to help a team win.”

Ahmed said he’d like to see something done to incentivize teams to try to win.

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Give rewards rather than extract penalties. I believe this would work for speeding up the game as well. Pay players to play faster.

Of course, getting rid of all the rules (no draft, no international restrictions, everyone a free agent when a contract expires) would also accomplish this. It is much tougher to game a simple system. Scotty summed it up well.