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Friday, May 29, 2009
Wieters
This is what I said about Longoria last year, and it applies to Wieters this year.
You see, Mrs. Longoria, there’s this rule called the Super 2s, whose impetus can be traced back to Roger Clemens and Peter Ueberroth. Roger was 30 days short of the 3 years vesting for arbitration. Now, vesting happens at around 2 years and 120ish days (depends on how other players were called up that year). Ryan Braun is at 129 days, so it’s going to be real close. And the Rays are not new to playing this game. BJ Upton has 1 year and 126 days and Jamie Shields has 1 year and 125 days.
So, these lawyers are trying to game the system, and trying to force vesting for these players at 3 years and 120 days.
The last game in MLB this year is Sept 30. Today is May 29. That is 125 days of service time. In recent years, to qualify for Super 2 status, you needed around 130 days of service time. Please, just one time I’d like to hear an honest reason for why star players are being held back. Just once.
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