{"id":898391,"date":"2026-10-29T05:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898391\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:34:15","slug":"super-two-status-set-at-2-133-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898391\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Two Status Set At 2.133 Years Of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball has officially set the Super Two cutoff at two years and 133 days (2.133) of major league service time, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kileymcd\/status\/2115619944104616152\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kiley McDaniel of ESPN<\/a>. The Super Two is a CBA mechanism for a subset of players to qualify for arbitration one year early.<\/p>\n<p>Players within the top 22% of those between two and three years of MLB service join players in the 3-5 year window in being eligible for arbitration. That assumes they\u2019re not already on a guaranteed contract (usually an early-career extension). Super Two qualifiers must also have logged at least 86 days on an MLB active roster or injured list during the preceding season.<\/p>\n<p>The cutoff varies every season depending on the specific service time of players in that 2-3 year bracket. Here are cutoffs from past seasons:<\/p>\n<p>2025: 2.140<br \/>2024: 2.132<br \/>2023: 2.118<br \/>2022: 2.128<br \/>2021: 2.116<br \/>2020: 2.125<br \/>2019: 2.115<br \/>2018: 2.134<br \/>2017: 2.123<br \/>2016: 2.131<br \/>2015: 2.130<br \/>2014: 2.133<br \/>2013: 2.122<br \/>2012: 2.140<br \/>2011: 2.146<br \/>2010: 2.122<br \/>2009: 2.139<\/p>\n<p>MLBTR contributor Ethan Hullihen keeps an unofficial estimate of the expected Super Two cutoff throughout the season. The official 2.133 number indeed aligned with Hullihen\u2019s most recent calculation \u2014 and it was therefore the basis for MLBTR\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/10\/projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2027.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">projected arbitration salaries<\/a> (courtesy of Matt Swartz).<\/p>\n<p>There are two players who finished the 2026 season with exactly 2.133 service years: Boston reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/guerrta01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyron Guerrero<\/a> and Colorado outfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/beckjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-10-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jordan Beck<\/a>. Swartz projects Guerrero for a $1.1MM salary, while Beck has a $1.2MM forecast (assuming the Rockies tender him a contract).<\/p>\n<p>The 2027 league minimum salary is to be determined in the next collective bargaining agreement, but it\u2019s likely that Guerrero and Beck will earn an extra few hundred thousand dollars by sneaking in above the cutoff. That\u2019s particularly meaningful for Guerrero, a 35-year-old journeyman who hadn\u2019t pitched in MLB in seven years until getting the call from the Red Sox in late May. He worked 40 2\/3 innings of 3.10 ERA ball while striking out a quarter of opponents, so Boston will certainly tender him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball has officially set the Super Two cutoff at two years and 133 days (2.133) of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-898391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}