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Friday, November 02, 2007

Request: MLB service time

By Tangotiger, 11:51 AM

I have a request for you guys, and hopefully someone will come through.  I sent the following to someone at MLB, who was unwilling to assist.  I don’t know why, since it doesn’t seem to be that difficult to figure, nor secret at all.  Just a lot of time in some cases.  Anyway, here’s what I’d like:
Would it be possible to get “first year eligible for free agency” for MLB players (active and inactive).  Or, similarly, number of days of service accrued each year, that counts toward the free agency clock. That is, how can I tell when a guy like Joe Mauer (pre his last signing) would have first been eligible for free agency?

As an aside, I am always disappointed when one of my requests is rejected.  I only target those that I have assisted in the past, since I figure I have currency built up.  Kind of like The Godfather: “Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day accept this justice as gift on my daughter’s wedding day.”

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