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Liriano Promotion Could Affect Arbitration
Francisco Liriano is pitching in his first major league game in 19 months today, and Twins fans have to be excited by that prospect.
However, as pointed out by Joe Christensen of The Star-Tribune, had the Twins waited longer to promote Liriano from the AAA Rochester Red Wings (where his service time clock was on hold), the lefty wouldn't reach the three-year arbitration benchmark until after the 2009 season.
As it stands now, with two years and 32 days of service, Liriano will see his salary move beyond the $1MM mark at the end of this season.
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It goes hand in hand with the way the Twins salaries are going. I read an article in ESPN that had percent increases of salaries for all the teams in i believe the last five years, Twins were number one with like 350%.
How long would they needed to have kept liriano in AAA to hold off arbitration?
Posted by: aj58078 | April 14, 2008 at 09:32 AM
It's not the arbitration that's the concern here, it's the free agency clock.
If they waited a month longer to bring him up, yeah, he would've ended up with under 3 years service time at the end of the year. But he would've easily gotten Super 2 status. They would've had to wait until late June / early July to avoid Super 2.
Posted by: yanksfan | April 14, 2008 at 10:41 AM
You suppose any of the Twins fans who think the team makes all its personnel decisions based on $$$$ will notice the discrepancy?
Nah - me neither.
Posted by: BD | April 19, 2008 at 04:25 PM