A few days of service time can make a difference of millions of dollars for a player, or allow him to veto a trade. It determines when a player goes to arbitration, when he hits free agency and ...

While the sport of baseball is famously played without a clock, the professional life of the ballplayer is governed by time in the most essential sense. "Service time" is the term for how much time a ...

There is an important, underreported line within every season, one every ballclub quietly notes and then acts upon: the window of time between when it can stop manipulating the service time of some of ...

Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant and Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Maikel Franco have filed grievances against their teams alleging they were kept in the minor leagues unnecessarily and ...

More than four years after Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant filed a grievance against his team over manipulation of service time, an arbitrator ruled last week that the Cubs sufficiently ...

The process for determining free agency and arbitration eligibility figures to be among the more contentious aspects of collective bargaining negotiations transpiring over the coming weeks. The MLB ...

WASHINGTON — The Army announced it is crediting service time for Soldiers who commissioned through the active-duty option of the Green to Gold program from 2006 to September 2023. The decision comes ...