Rookies & contracts

[Jim]

How do rookies work...is this right?

- Year 1: League minimum
- Year 2: League minimum
- Year 3: League minimum
- Year 4: Arbitration
- Year 5: Arbitration
- Year 6: Arbitration
- Year 7: FA

[Pat]

Maybe.

[Ryan]

I think thats the way it works.

[Carlos]

Pretty much, but it's really dependent on Service time not years in the league.

[Riverman]

Less than three years of BLB service time - league minimmum.
Three years or more but less than six years - arbitration.
Six years or more - free agency if not resigned.

Major league service time is measued in days on an active BLB roster or on the 15-day DL. Something like 171 days equals one year, but I am not sure of the exact number. In the last version of the game, time on the 60-day DL did not count as major league service time and I think it is like that still, but I am not sure.