On the last day of the first half of the season, five Faces of Super Two disappeared. Let me explain. A Face of Super Two is, by my definition, any player who has a chance to end the regular season with 86 Major League service time in 2018, at least two years of career service time accrued AND not more than two years, 171 days of career service time.
At the moment, 196 players qualify as Faces of Super Two under this definition. Please note that this number does not include the five players who fell out of the category for various reasons on Sunday.
Eric Thames, 1B, Milwaukee. Through Sunday, Thames has exactly three years of service time and thus qualifies for arbitration outside of the Super Two process. Thames is already under contract for 2019 having sacrificed his first year of arbitration.
Luis Cessa, P, Yankees and Allen Cordoba, IF, San Diego. Both of these players are currently in their organization's minor league systems. Additionally, they both have only one year and 94 days of career service time. Even if they were promoted today and stayed up through the end of the season, they would fall a day short of two full years of service time.
Jake Barrett, P, Arizona. Barrett is currently in the minors with a total of eight service days this season. He can not accrue the needed 86 days of big league service time this season.
Efren Navarro, 1B/OF, Formerly of the Cubs. Like Barrett, Navarro only has eight service days this season. His impossible task of reaching 86 service days this season is further complicated by the fact that he has been playing for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan for about a month.
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