Comments on: Hardy and Service Time

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:57:37 +0000

If this was the Mariners doing this to Hardy, Cameron would be saying it was the greatest move by a GM in the history of the game!!!

Anyway, I was looking over the article because I would like to see the Tigers pick up Hardy through trade… His defense is just as good as Everetts, plus even his off year at the plate is about as good as Everett’s normal year…

the Brewers need pitching, so maybe the Tigers could try tradeing Gallaraga, or maybe even Robertson if they picked up some of his contract…

By: Luke Appling

Luke Appling — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:22:09 +0000

I disagree with Robert. The Brewers gained an extra year, and added trade value, on a player that was underperforming at the MLB level. Next year his anger at the Brewers delaying his service time clock will lead to a resurgance for his new team, and ultimately a better free agent contract for him in the long run. JJ is going to be paid; though not by the Brewers. Sending him to the minors was better for his career and for his bank account.

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By: Robert Earle

Robert Earle — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:27:42 +0000

I completely agree that the Brewers need to call JJ back before he loses the MLB service time, not only because it is the right thing to do, but that it is also the best thing to do for the future of the Brewer organization.

JJ is a member of a union. If the management of the Brewer organization “screws with” a member of the union, you can be certain that other members of that union will notice, and will remember. Someone like Prince Fielder – whose service time at the beginning of 2009 was listed as 3.068 years, and so could have his service time similarly manipulated next year – was probably on the telephone to his agent Wednesday morning saying “Can they really do that to JJ?!? …to me!?!”

Let’s say that when the time comes, the Yankees offer Prince a given contract, and the Brewers match it term-for-term and dollar-for dollar. If you’re Prince, do you 1) sign with the team that screwed your friend JJ, or do you 2) sign with the team that DIDN’T screw your friend JJ? If you’re an agent, do you steer your clients towards or away from the team known to screw with player’s service time?

Manipulating JJ’s service time to keep him a year longer or enhance his trade value might well turn into the very definition of a “Pyhrric victory”. I sincerely hope that between now and the “deadline”, Brewer management recognizes that.

(It is also my reading for the Collective Bargaining Agreement that “the deadline” comes on August 31st and not September 1st, as Theron says above. More specifically, JJ’s recall would have to happen prior to game-time of the Nashville Sounds’ game on the 31st; so that JJ would not be eligible for the Sounds game of the 31st.)