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In Major League Baseball (MLB), service time manipulation refers to tactics that baseball team executives employ to prevent players from becoming eligible for free agency and salary arbitration. It typically takes the form of demoting a player from the major league to the minor leagues for 16 days or more for reasons unrelated to their performance.
The players wanted a full year’s pay and service time, and to get it when the schedule could no longer accommodate 162 games as easily, they might have had to give up something else.
The arbitrator chooses one number or the other, based on which offer is closest to the salaries of players with similar ability and service time. For purposes of salary arbitration and free agency, a player acquires a year of service time if the player remains on the major league roster for at least 172 days of the typical 187-day season.
Salary arbitration. Players on the 40-man roster with fewer than six years of MLB service time must be tendered contracts. Players with three to six years, as well as Super Two qualifiers, can ...
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Washington Nationals star Juan Soto (second from right), seen at the NL wild-card game with powerful agent Scott Boras, is just 23 years old, but has been one of MLB's best players for years.
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