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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
A player can only add 172 days to his service time if he is in the ML the whole season, not 180.

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

Re: Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
When did Sikorski log a year in the pros?

by bigbrabbs on Mar 28, 2007 5:47 AM EDT   0 recs

Re: Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
In 2000 (Texas), and 2006 (San Diego/Cleveland).

by Ryan on Mar 28, 2007 8:01 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
Didn't Ocker publish a Q&A from a reader in which he basically wrote that I ("some blogger") didn't know what I was talking about wrt to keeping Marte in Buffalo?  And it looks like Marte finished the season with ... let's see ... 126 days of service time ... yeah, probably just a coincidence.

by Jay on Mar 28, 2007 9:44 AM EDT   0 recs

Re: Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
It's not so much that I'm the man ... as being both condescending and wrong is a very ugly thing.

by Jay on Mar 28, 2007 10:41 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
and all too frequent an occurrence.

by MTF on Mar 30, 2007 9:58 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
I am waiting to see if the Indians try to get Carmona 57 days in the minors this year to keep him from being a Super-2.

I don't think they will get the chance.

by ronh on Mar 28, 2007 6:16 PM EDT   0 recs

Re: Indians Service Time - 2007 Season
Sure doesn't look like it, does it?  Even if Byrd doesn't suck.

by Jay on Mar 28, 2007 9:26 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Great work!
Hello Ryan and Jay,

Thanks for the charts - greatly appreciated!  That makes the service time concept much easier to grasp!

Keep up the great work!

Go Tribe! :-)

by indiansfan on Mar 30, 2007 1:07 AM EDT   0 recs

Re: Great work!
I think we must now have, by far, the most service-time-savvy readership of any baseball site.  Just last week somebody was apologizing for the mistake of thinking Adam Miller would have to stay in Buffalo until August, rather than June, in order to avoid arbitration in 2010.  That is pretty ridiculous.

by Jay on Mar 30, 2007 12:40 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: Great work!
service time, rule 5, options... all that stuff...

by Brick. on Mar 30, 2007 2:16 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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