Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
Here's a listing of the service time of every Indian either on the 40-man roster or invited to Spring Training, culled from the 2007 Media Guide. I've grouped everybody into categories that signify upcoming arbitration or free agency milestones.
Here's how to make use of this information. A single "service year" is achieved by being on a major-league roster (or the disabled List) for 172 days, or an entire season. A player needs roughly 2.130 years (2 years, 130 days) of service time to become arbitration-eligible, and exactly 6 years of service time to become eligible for free agency. For a more in-depth look at arbitration status and its effect on payroll, see Jay's fantastic Managing the Clock.
The two "possible" categories include players who could reach arbitration or free agency with anywhere from 1 to 172 additional days of additional service time. For instance, Hector Luna has a chance of becoming arbitration-eligible at the end of this season, but if he doesn't accrue enough service time, he won't be eligible.
The other categories involve players who are pretty much locked into their particular service time level. For instance, even if Fernando Cabrera spends the entire season on the major-league roster, he won't be arbitration-eligible at the end of the season.
Players denoted with an asterisk (*) are signed to multi-year deals, so they won't go through either the arbitration or free agency process this offseason. In Sizemore's or Peralta's case, they are all but guaranteed of accruing a full year's service time due to their long-term contracts, but I've left them in the "Possible Arbitration" category to prevent confusion. For this exercise, I've ignored team or player options.

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Re: Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
From the 2002-2006 CBA
A Player may not be credited with more than one year of credited service, 172 days, in one championship season.
by ronh on Mar 28, 2007 12:06 AM EDT 0 recs
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by dgcambridge on Mar 28, 2007 9:34 AM EDT 0 recs
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I don't think they will get the chance.
by ronh on Mar 28, 2007 6:16 PM EDT 0 recs
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by Jay on
Mar 28, 2007 9:26 PM EDT
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Great work!
Thanks for the charts - greatly appreciated! That makes the service time concept much easier to grasp!
Keep up the great work!
by indiansfan on Mar 30, 2007 1:07 AM EDT 0 recs
Re: Great work!
by Jay on
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Re: Great work!
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