{"id":1095702,"date":"2020-02-01T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1095702"},"modified":"2020-02-01T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:25:15","slug":"why-1-day-is-costing-kris-bryant-millions-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/why-1-day-is-costing-kris-bryant-millions-of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 1 Day Is Costing Kris Bryant Millions of Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Getting drilled in the ribs by an Aroldis Chapman fastball would have been less painful for Kris Bryant than losing his grievance against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/mlb-5-ways-the-chicago-cubs-september-was-1-of-the-worst-ever\/\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> this week. Numerous up-and-coming Major League Baseball stars feel his pain, particularly in their bank accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By no means will Bryant be\nworking for sweatshop wages \u2013 the Cubs avoided arbitration by offering him\n$18.6 million for the upcoming season &#8212; but the arbitrator\u2019s decision puts him\ntwo seasons away from free agency instead of one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling also delays the\npossibility of free agency for some fellow major leaguers tripped up by the\nsame loophole Bryant was fighting to abolish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One extra day in the minors cost Kris Bryant dearly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kris Bryant Hits Baseballs Into Chicago River | OnScene | ESPN\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lS33F6cFIy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/1-thing-the-chicago-cubs-need-to-do-before-spring-training\/\">Kris Bryant<\/a> looked like a can\u2019t-miss prospect in early 2015. After hitting 43 home runs in the minors the previous season, Bryant tore up Cactus League pitching with nine homers and a .425 batting average in spring training. The Cubs had a need at third base and Bryant looked ready to fill it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversy began when\nthe Cubs sent Bryant back to Triple-A ball before the start of the MLB season,\npurportedly to work on his defense, and then gave him the eagerly awaited\npromotion on April 17, 2015. He stuck with the club for the rest of the season,\nfinishing with 26 home runs, 99 runs batted in, and a .275 average to be voted\nthe top rookie in the National League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As nice as the statistics were,\nthe number that counted most was 171. That was how many days Bryant spent in\nthe majors, and it left him one day short of earning credit for a full season\nin MLB under the collective bargaining agreement between owners and players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That one day means he\u2019ll finish the 2020 season a day short of six full seasons in the majors, the threshold for being able to file for free agency. Bryant wasn't the first player affected by the rule, and other rising prospects have been tripped up by the same maneuver in the years since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Chicago Cubs benefit twice from the decision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kris Bryant goes undercover as pizza delivery guy to prank fantasy baseball players | ESPN\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p5rH4JJ9bj4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kris Bryant has been a steady\nperformer for the Chicago Cubs while splitting time between third base and the\noutfield. His 31 homers, 77 RBIs, and .282 batting average last season were\nright around his norms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cubs recognized that and paid handsomely to avoid salary arbitration with one of the keys to the 2016 World Series championship team, but they also didn\u2019t hand him a lucrative long-term deal acceptable to the slugger just yet because they expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/28591644\/sources-kris-bryant-loses-grievance-cubs-free-agent-2021-season\">win the dispute<\/a> over service time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That not only saves them significant money this season and next, but it buys them time to trade a player who might resent losing a dispute that had been simmering for years without having to conduct a fire sale. The Cubs can move Bryant by the 2020 trade deadline and command a premium because the slugger\u2019s new team will be guaranteed his services for the whole 2021 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The issue is settled for now but not dead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baseball Star Kris Bryant Gets Pranked by Hall of Famer Greg Maddux\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/axkik-8oFTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/celebrities-root-chicago-cubs\/\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> won the battle, but Major League Baseball might just lose the war. The current collective bargaining agreement expires after the 2021 season, and Bryant could use his role as the Cubs\u2019 player representative as a bully pulpit to push for new rules on service time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having to play six years in the majors to explore free agency\nafter having already spent four or five seasons in the minors greatly limits\nthe numbers of players who eventually cash in big. It\u2019s reasonable to expect\nthe union to try negotiating it down to five seasons before qualifying for free\nagency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternately, players could also push to have just three months in the majors qualify as a full season of service time, and the owners might compromise by agreeing to four months. If a prospect is tearing up Triple-A ball, a struggling club would be under fan and media pressure to not wait until Memorial Day to call him up to the majors and potentially salvage the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris Bryant has lost his grievance, meaning the Chicago Cubs star will have to wait an additional year to test the free-agent market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":1095708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5012,92],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why 1 Day Is Costing Kris Bryant Millions of Dollars - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kris Bryant has lost his grievance, meaning the Chicago Cubs star will have to wait an additional year to test the free-agent market.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/why-1-day-is-costing-kris-bryant-millions-of-dollars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why 1 Day Is Costing Kris Bryant Millions of Dollars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kris Bryant has lost his grievance, meaning the Chicago Cubs star will have to wait an additional year to test the free-agent market.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/why-1-day-is-costing-kris-bryant-millions-of-dollars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-01T13:25:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kris-bryant.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"795\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Sports7J\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/why-1-day-is-costing-kris-bryant-millions-of-dollars\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/why-1-day-is-costing-kris-bryant-millions-of-dollars\/\",\"name\":\"Why 1 Day Is Costing Kris Bryant Millions of Dollars - 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