Thole is among six extra players eligible for salary arbitration this winter under baseball's new labor contract.
Posted: Oct. 23, 2012 5:12 PM ET
Under the labor contract agreed to last November, the top 22 percent of players by service time with at least two years but less than three are eligible for arbitration along with the 3-to-6 year players. From 1991 through last year, the top 17 percent in the 2-to-3-year group had been eligible. The cutoff was 2 years, 139 days, down from what would have been 2 years, 144 days under the old rule.
Data provided by STATS LLC.