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Originally Posted by Zeyes
In a quick test, this works for a player below the arbitration minimum time. He had an automatically assigned Major League contract, I demoted him to AAA shortly before the end of the season, and he was auto-signed to a minor league contract in the off-season.
Another guy with arbitration eligibility received a new contract through arbitration even though he was only on the 40-man roster, but not the 25-man. I have no idea if this is correct behaviour...anyone? (He definitely should not go through arbitration if he was off the 40-man roster, but we obviously can't test that right now.)
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it depends -- in the MLB if the player accumulates more then 3 years of service time and less then 6 years, hes eligible regardless of what level in your organization he is at. But the clock stops when he is sent to the minor leagues.
as far as OOTP goes, i think it handles service time perfectly because it says a player could "possibly" be eligible
I know there have been a few cases where players were returned to the minors on small market teams right before they went over 3 years to finish out a season so that they could avoid arbitration