Coping DJ's post here out of the covid-19 thread
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Doesn't bother me.
MLB players have guaranteed contracts and have done nothing in violation of them. Why shouldn't they get paid? The service time thing is a weird question because of how easily it can be manipulated. I don't really know how to address that one. For instance, should a guy like Wander Franco or Dylan Carlson, who were almost certainly going to end up on a 25 man rosters this year, get a full season worth of service time when teams were almost certainly going to wait until June to call them up? Luis Robert is a bit of a moot point because he signed a major league deal w/ his extension, but he'd have been another really interesting question.
And then someone like Rangel Ravelo or Austin Gomber, who are technically on the 25 man right now for STL but most assuredly would've been riding the Memphis shuttle back and forth for most of the year, should they get the full season? I think their argument would be that if they got hurt on day 1 and missed the full year, they would have, so why wouldn't this count the same way? But again, in a 'regular' world, Ravelo would've spent less time on an MLB roster this year than Carlson would've, but because Carlson isn't on the 40 man right now, he'll get nothing and Ravelo gets a full season?
Service time's just a real tricky question and I don't think there's a good answer.
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Why would Dylan Carlson get a free year of service time when he was already sent down before the virus and shutdown hit?
And the others, since the service time clock never started, why should they get their service time credit? Everyone's life is on hold, why doesn't baseball players get their life, service time, on hold too?