Zimmerman flails at ball 4....story of this Richardhead team...watch strikes, swing at everything outside of the strike zone...all this for millions of dollars a season....baseball players should be paid on current performance, not last year's nor next's...what are you doing NOW??? A base salary of, say, $300,000....you can add to it, or subtract from it...get a walk, collect $500, get a hit, collect $1000, extra base hit, add $500 for each base, get an RBI, collect $1000, strike out, oops, minus $500....watch a called third strike....ka-ching...minus $5000.....swing at a ball in the dirt, minus $2000 (Desmond would be bankrupt by now), successful bunt/fly out/ground out, collect $500....you get the idea....the better you perform, the more you make....the worse you perform, the less you get paid....make money the motivator....but not by giving away tons up front...we could construct something similar for pitchers...
