Warren Newson wrote:
The question is whether his future team will acquire him with any expectation that he'll pitch? 2024 will essentially be the third year (2019 and almost all of 2020) he will not be available for pitching. I suspect the answer will depend on what they end up paying him. If he's getting $50 million a year, I think you have to try pitching him one last time.
Yeah, I don’t know how teams can structure a contract without knowing if he’ll pitch.
You could probably load up a contract with incentives if he hits certain thresholds regarding pitching.