I know if you promote someone after 20 MinL games the first time, you are able to gain an extra year of minimum salary pay before they are arbitration eligible. 


I was wondering if theoretically that if you did this to someone twice, they could have 2 seasons of minimum salary instead of just the extra 1. Not that I'm necessarily planning on doing this, just curious. 

http://www.cbabaseball.com/rules/index.php?title=Service_Time_(MLB)

there's no text in that page.

"A player demoted to the minor leagues is credited with ML service through the date of the assignment"

What if you demote them during the offseason?

I.e. 

Season one, wait 20 games, promote.
Offseason, demote
Season 2, wait 20 games, promote

It's not linking correctly, it's lopping off the ) on the link, just add it into your browser URL

You are unable to do that because the timer does not pause when you demote, it continues to accrue or whatever

That's not true. Because I've had players (rule 5 guys), where they start year 1, day 1 on the BL roster. So they accrue one year of service time.

In the offseason I demote them, and wait 20 games, and then bring them back up.

Season 2, becomes the "free season"

Season 3 he still only has one season of service time.

Example:  Hardball Dynasty – Fantasy Baseball Sim Games - Player Profile: Adrian Taylor

er, it's not that it doesn't pause while he's in the minors, it's that the second assignment doesn't start back again at 0 days, it resumes at 173 days or whatever out of 182, so you get to 1 full year at 10 days into the second assignment rather than 172 days into the second assignment

the [.180] stands for 180 days out of 182 rather than 180/1000

got it thanks

So yeah, the long and the short of it is that in season 2, the clock does not re-start at 0, it resumes wherever the player left off. 

You'll notice that the differential for one season is 10 days, but teams always wait 30 days in the player's rookie season, it's because of the way the arb clock works the teams are lumping the entire 30 day service time "waiting" gap into the first season instead of spreading it out with 10 days over each of the player's first three seasons, because that makes the most sense (30x1 in the player's youngest season > 10x3 which would include time in following seasons when the player has gotten better)