Mariners' Bryan Woo gets $1.5 million salary contract update via new MLB bonus rule

Billy Heyen

Mariners' Bryan Woo gets $1.5 million salary contract update via new MLB bonus rule image

Bryan Woo is coming off the best season of his MLB career.

He's earned a salary bonus for his troubles.

The Seattle Mariners' right-handed pitcher was one of the top earners in MLB's bonus pool for pre-arbitration players.

Woo will get a bonus of $1,540,676 from the process.

The Associated Press described it like this: "A total of 101 players will receive the payments under a plan aimed to get more money to players without sufficient service time for salary arbitration eligibility going into the season, which was two years, 132 days. Players signed as foreign professionals are not eligible."

There's a formula based on postseason awards and Wins Above Replacement that MLB uses to calculate the values. 

Woo is the fourth-highest bonus earner, behind just Pirates ace Paul Skenes, Phillies lefty Christopher Sanchez and Astros righty Hunter Brown.

MORE: Paul Skenes sets new MLB record

In the end of season Cy Young voting, Woo finished fifth in the American League.

This was the third MLB season for the 25-year old right-hander Woo.

He made his first All-Star team, and deservedly so.

Woo put up a 15-7 record and a 2.94 ERA.

He went 186.2 innings on the mound, struck out 198 batters and walked only 36.

His 5.50 strikeout-to-walk ratio is about as good as it gets.

Woo's previous career-best in innings pitched was the 121.1 he went in 2024, but he breezed past that while not skipping a beat.

And now he's got a nice extra payday to show for it.

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