wait what? Soler signed a 9/30 contract as an IFA, so people are assuming he becomes a free agent with less than 6 ML years service because reasons. Is the trick that he used up his three option years in 2012/13/14 and therefore had to stick in the majors at the outset of 2015 and therefore would by default reach 6 years of service time by the end of 2020? No, Soler gets 4 options. People are assuming that because his 9 year contract ends in 2020 that that's the end of the control, similar to Cespedes. But it's known that Soler can opt into arbitration when eligible. As it is, he'll reach FA after 2020 because he was called up, so we may never know, but I still don't understand why you'd assume he gets FA at (for example) 5 years 120 days, just because his original contract was signed for 9 years. David Price signed a 6 year major league deal when he was drated with the same arbitration provision. He didn't randomly become a free agent after 2012, he remained Rays property.