Buster in life have you ever been in a situation where you felt you didn't get what you were owed or had earned for your work.

Oh, of course. I was a bank teller when I was in college, okay?

And I felt like I was doing better than what I was being paid for,

and I wound up getting a raise to $4.20 an hour.

Wow, okay. So you're already doing negotiation something you know well. Why is that important? Well, you

had the chance to talk with Jeff Berry. He's Josh Hader's agent and what we're going

to do today is recap, Haters' experience going through the arbitration system in Major League Baseball.

So I just want to caution listeners.

There's a lot of internicing stuff here, but that's what Buster's here for.

Can you please break down for clarity

what the practice of service time manipulation even is,

Buster, and why teams do it at all?

Okay, a lot of teams with service time manipulation, they will hold a player down in the minor leagues for a little extra longer, potentially to delay the time they can become a free agent.

And it has been a practice that has been going

on in baseball for about 25 30 years.

What continues to allow that practice to go on?

There was a time when the average baseball fan had no idea what that is.

I would say even now the average baseball fan has a pretty good inclination that teams

get hinky with this stuff just because they can't. Why can't they still?

Yeah, I think quite frankly because of the lack of first off you

have all these teams looking for an edge right and you have 30 teams trying to find a way to maximize efficiency to get every bit of value out of every

single dollar they spend, to get every bit of value of every prospect that they draft or a

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