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An interesting story with some good explanations of new rules...
www.overthemonster.com
1. MLB players need to accumulate six years of major league service time before hitting free agency.
2. To accumulate a full year of service time in one calendar year, players need to spend at least 172 DAYS of the regular season on the major league roster.
3. Under the old rules, clubs were incentivized to leave top prospects in the minors to start the season for a couple of weeks out of spring training to prevent them from reaching the 172 day threshold, thus essentially giving the club an extra year of control. (At the end of what should be been year six, the player ends up with five years and 171 days of service time and they can’t hit free agency yet. Nasty business!)
Now, let’s take a look at two very important updates the PPI brings to the equation as described by Chad Jennings and Cody Stevenhagen in the Athletic last month:
Is this is why the Red Sox haven’t promoted Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer?
Service time manipulation is becoming an increasingly ugly and complex game as the balance between people, production and profits spins off its axis.
www.overthemonster.com
1. MLB players need to accumulate six years of major league service time before hitting free agency.
2. To accumulate a full year of service time in one calendar year, players need to spend at least 172 DAYS of the regular season on the major league roster.
3. Under the old rules, clubs were incentivized to leave top prospects in the minors to start the season for a couple of weeks out of spring training to prevent them from reaching the 172 day threshold, thus essentially giving the club an extra year of control. (At the end of what should be been year six, the player ends up with five years and 171 days of service time and they can’t hit free agency yet. Nasty business!)
Now, let’s take a look at two very important updates the PPI brings to the equation as described by Chad Jennings and Cody Stevenhagen in the Athletic last month:
- Under the PPI rules, teams can earn additional draft picks — high picks, immediately after the first round — by giving elite prospects a full year of service time. Players with little or no MLB service (rookies, basically) who appear on two of three top 100 prospect rankings (MLB Pipeline, Baseball America and ESPN) are PPI-eligible.
- Any PPI-eligible player who finishes first or second in Rookie of the Year voting is awarded a full year of service time regardless of when he actually debuted.
