Matthew Boyd spent an entire season in the Majors for the first time this year after spending parts of the previous three seasons in the big leagues, including four trips back and forth between Detroit and Toledo in 2016 and a one-day stint as the 26th player for a July 1 doubleheader in 2017.
After all those trips back and forth, Boyd is in line to get a major pay raise thanks to two days in the Majors. That’s the margin by which he qualified for arbitration eligibility this winter.
While players automatically qualify for arbitration after three years of big-league service time, the top 22 percent of players between two and three years of service time also get bumped up to arbitration eligibility under the “Super Two” qualification.