The Padres will have paid Garrett Richards a little more than $8 million to rehab his elbow and pitch 8 2/3 innings over two seasons.
Fernando Tatis Jr. will have played 84 games and have two seasons of service time.
Those are just a couple of the peculiarities for the Padres and other teams should the 2020 season be wiped out due to the novel coronavirus.
Most significantly, a deal struck Thursday between Major League Baseball’s owners and players guarantees service time for 2020 equivalent to what a player earned in 2019 in the event MLB is unable to play a shortened season.