Players receive Major League service time for each day spent on the 26-man roster or the Major League injured list. Important to players and clubs alike, service time is used to determine when players ...

There's been this idea running around the internet (mostly twitter, although I've seen it on reddit, too): The Atlanta Braves are manipulating Michael Soroka's service time. Seems like they're trying ...

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 ...

The New York Yankees may have just been handed an uncomfortable decision—one that has nothing to do with batting average and everything to do with the calendar. According to Joel Sherman of the New ...

Former Seattle Mariners executive Kevin Mather’s incendiary and cringeworthy remarks to a Seattle-area Rotary Club earlier this month — including his admission that the team manipulated the service ...

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 ...