Skipping a year of service Topic

kahrtmen
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With the new service time clocks, every player that plays a full year gets an extra 4 days of service.  Has anyone ever seen a player skip a year of service time due to this?  I am thinking of a guy going from something like 1.171 to 3.003.  
2/28/2011 4:05 AM
taz21
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well the amount  of days used to stop at 255 until about a month or 2 ago.  meaning that if a guy started the season @ 1.171, he'd end the season at 1.255 even if he spent the entire season in the majors. At the flip of the new season, he's be at 2.83 (255-172) and you'd move forward.  W/ the new switch, he'd be at 1.347, and theortetically would start the next season at 3.003 like you mention.  However, I think the change is so new, that anyone knows for sure.  If you bring a guy up after 20 minor league days, the change will effect you going from season 4 to season 5, at which point he'll have 6 seasons of service, and will hit the FA market w/o the last arbitration period.  However, I don't know if the sim would allow that or not, it may give the 3rd arbitration season anyways.  I'm playing it safe, and holding guys back 25 days now, until its figured out how the change in counting days beyond 255 effects things.

Hope that makes sense.

2/28/2011 10:25 AM
kahrtmen
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Yeah, I am holding guys back 25 days as well.  I have a guy I brought up after roster expansion last season that is at 0.025 days.  If I bring him up now he will finish this year at 0.170 or so, which would normally be perfect, but I am worried about him jumping to 2.002 after next season.
2/28/2011 12:48 PM
taz21
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I'd wait a few extra days, just to be safe.  Unless he's not a guy you want to keep around as long as possible, so you have an experimental player under this situation that you can learn from.

2/28/2011 1:59 PM
kahrtmen
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The problem is that he is a first year player, so I would  have to wait another 20 days to truly be safe. 
2/28/2011 2:40 PM
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