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Originally posted by PaulC
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Stu Stark was promoted in 2013, later into the season. He did not accumulate enough service days to qualify as a full year of service.
Because of that, he walked into 2014 as if that was his first year, according to service days.
Service days play perhaps the largest role in arbitration especially since Brad's example only affects 22% of the players in the league.
Filar is a prime example of a guy that doesn't fit Westcott's reasoning (Westcott is most especially a Super Two considering he played 162 games in his rookie year and with his current games played in season 2 is undoubtedly within the top 22% of cumulative service days for a player in his promotion year) but does fit the mold of someone that was promoted a bit too early in 2014 and accumulated just enough service days to count the year as a full season.
So he accumulated enough service days on the 40-man roster by the time 2016 finished and he was eligible for his first year of arbitration, which he's now playing.
This is the same issue I'm running into now with Dave Smith who started 32 games in 2015 (so he was definitely on the roster long enough to accumulate the service days for a full year) and in his 4th season will be making his first arbitration money.
Whereas Manny Reyna was promoted late enough in the 2014 season to not accumulate enough service days and will be in his 5th season making his first arbitration dollars.
(see: Kris Bryant for an example of this in real life)
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