Comments on: Best Rookie Seasons, By Franchise

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:06:03 +0000

@ John Autin, #87

There are nine specific bullet points under the CBA rule for acquiring ML service time, #8 says”

“ML service time is not credited during any period or periods of optional assignment totaling 20 days or more during a single season.”

Anything less than 20 days, whether consecutively or spread through a calendar season, counts as ML service time.

As far as I can tell, this rule has been in place since Collective Bargaining came into play in 1972.

http://www.cbabaseball.com/rules/index.php?title=Service_Time_(MLB)

By: bstar

bstar — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:08:24 +0000

There have been a few considerations recently to give a guy another shot at player-manager. From wikipedia:

“…The Toronto Blue Jays considered hiring Paul Molitor as a player–manager in 1997. When approached with the idea in 2000, Barry Larkin reported that he found it “interesting”, though general manager (GM) Jim Bowden rejected the idea. In the 2011–12 offseason, the White Sox considered hiring incumbent first baseman Paul Konerko to serve as manager. White Sox GM Kenny Williams said that he believes MLB will again have a player–manager…”

By: birtelcom

birtelcom — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:09:47 +0000

Here’s a b-ref list: http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders_most_gamesnops.shtml

That shows Adam Dunn as the active player with the most games played and no post-season appearances. Apparently the Fourth True Outcome is No Playoffs.

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:46:22 +0000

@82 Luis – I remember that, until the 2010 playoffs, Aubrey Huff was the active leader in games played without a playoff appearance, 2010 being his age 32 season and 11th year in the bigs. In fact he had never started the year on a team that would go on to finish above .500. Now he has two WS rings.

Ayone know who the current active leader is?

By: John Autin

John Autin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:30:40 +0000

Thanks for the facts, bstar & Chuck.

Now that Trout’s episode has exposed this moronic “out” in rookie eligibility, wouldn’t it be great if MLB actually changed the ROY language to align with common sense, instead of requiring active MLB intervention to right a wrong?

I mean, what rational person would read “days on the active roster” and guess that it could ever include time in the minor leagues?