Earlier today, the Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported that the MLB office and the Player’s Association had come to an agreement in regards to service time. Essentially, if a player plays the entire season this year, regardless of how long it ends up being, they’ll earn a full year of service time. The two sides will have to continue to negotiate later on as this situation continues, but it’s a good start for now.
For the Blue Jays, it throws an interesting wrinkle into their 2020 plans, or at least I’m assuming it might. I’ve previously written about how the Blue Jays might actually have a small benefit to the delayed start to the season, because it could mean that Nate Pearson could be on the MLB roster all year without worrying about an innings limit, or even his service time.