This offseason\u2019s cutoff for Super Two arbitration eligibility is likely to land around two years and 139 or 140 days of service time, MLBTR has learned. MLB should finalize the cutoff within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n
The Super Two this year should be a slight increase from last offseason, when the cutoff was 2.132 service years. Players automatically qualify for arbitration when they reach three years of service time and don\u2019t already have a guaranteed contract. The top 22% of players in service between two and three years also qualify (so long as they spent at least 86 days of the preceding season on the active roster or MLB injured list).<\/p>\n
Qualifying for early arbitration is a nice boost for a player\u2019s earning potential. He gets to earn a salary above the MLB minimum a year earlier than most other players in the 2-3 year bracket. Arbitration salaries are also designed to escalate as a player builds service, so there are compounding benefits in future years from working off a bigger platform.<\/p>\n
Here are the official thresholds from prior offseasons:<\/p>\n
2024: 2.132
\n2023: 2.118
\n2022: 2.128
\n2021: 2.116
\n2020: 2.125
\n2019: 2.115
\n2018: 2.134
\n2017: 2.123
\n2016: 2.131
\n2015: 2.130
\n2014: 2.133
\n2013: 2.122
\n2012: 2.140
\n2011: 2.146
\n2010: 2.122
\n2009: 2.139<\/p>\n
Matt McLain<\/a> is the only player in MLB who ended the year with exactly two years and 140 days of service. MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projects<\/a> the Cincinnati second baseman for a $2.6MM salary. Next year\u2019s league minimum is $780K, so it\u2019s likely McLain will earn close to an extra $2MM by a matter of days (to say nothing of the escalating benefit if the Reds tender him contracts in future years).<\/p>\n There are three pitchers at 2.139 service years: Cincinnati starter Brandon Williamson<\/a>, Seattle reliever\u00a0Jackson Kowar<\/a>, and Tampa Bay reliever\u00a0Manuel Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>. Their status won\u2019t be known until MLB finalizes the cutoff, but none of those players are going to command much more than the league minimum regardless. They all spent most of this past season (all of it, in Williamson\u2019s case) on the injured list.<\/p>\n No one in MLB has exactly 2.138 or 2.137 service years. It thus appears that the three players at 2.136 years \u2014\u00a0Lucas Erceg<\/a>,\u00a0Patrick Bailey<\/a>, and Ryan Walker<\/a> \u2014 will be the closest misses. They were each projected between $1.9MM and $2.5MM had they been eligible for arbitration. That\u2019d be a nice development for the Giants, who would save around $4MM from an already light arbitration class if Bailey and Walker indeed are in for another season around the minimum.<\/p>\n Blake Perkins<\/a>,\u00a0Kody Clemens<\/a>, Bryan Hoeing<\/a>\u00a0and Zack Kelly<\/a> are the other players who would\u2019ve qualified for Super Two at last year\u2019s cutoff but are likely to fall short with the slightly higher threshold. Grayson Rodriguez<\/a> (2.129),\u00a0Reese Olson<\/a> (2.123),\u00a0Bryan Woo<\/a> (2.121), Andrew Abbott<\/a> (2.119)\u00a0and Elly De La Cruz<\/a> (2.118) are among the notable players who came up a couple weeks short.<\/p>\n Notable players who\u00a0did qualify for Super Two status beyond McLain include Zach Neto<\/a> (2.170), Maikel Garcia<\/a> (2.168), Mason Miller<\/a> (2.166), Brice Turang<\/a> (2.165) and Francisco Alvarez<\/a> (2.164). MLBTR\u2019s projections for all arbitration-eligible players are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This offseason\u2019s cutoff for Super Two arbitration eligibility is likely to land around two years and 139 or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-252197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}