By: Pip

Pip — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:25:27 +0000

Yeah, you’re probably right, DaveBug. I thought about what other transaction types to show but settled on what I did for simplicity and interest. The problem with arbitration settlements is that the transaction data doesn’t track them, as far as I can tell; here’s the list of codes (from Retrosheet):
A – assigned from one team to another without compensation
C – conditional deal
Cr – returned to original team after conditional deal
D – rule 5 draft pick
Da – amateur draft pick
Df – first year draft pick
Dm – minor league draft pick
Dn – selected in amateur draft but did not sign
Dr – returned to original team after draft selection
Ds – special draft pick
Dv – amateur draft pick voided
F – free agent signing
Fa – amateur free agent signing
Fb – amateur free agent “bonus baby” signing under the 1953-57
rule requiring player to stay on ML roster
Fc – free agent compensation pick
Fg – free agent granted
Fo – free agent signing with first ML team
Fv – free agent signing voided
Hb – went on the bereavement list
Hbr – came off the bereavement list
Hd – declared ineligible
Hdr – reinistated from the ineligible list
Hf – demoted to the minor league
Hfr – promoted from the minor league
Hh – held out
Hhr – ended hold out
Hi – went on the disabled list
Hir – came off the disabled list
Hm – went into military service
Hmr – returned from military service
Hs – suspended
Hsr – reinstated after a suspension
Hu – unavailable but not on DL
Hur – returned from being unavailable
Hv – voluntarity retired
Hvr – unretired
J – jumped teams
Jr – returned to original team after jumping
L – loaned to another team
Lr – returned to original team after loan
M – obtained rights when entering into working agreement with
minor league team
Mr – rights returned when working agreement with minor league
team ended
P – purchase
Pr – returned to original team after purchase
Pv – purchase voided
R – release
T – trade
Tn – traded but refused to report
Tp – added to trade (usually because one of the original
players refused to report or retired)
Tr – returned to original team after trade
Tv – trade voided
U – unknown (could have been two separate transactions)
Vg – player assigned to league control
V – player purchased or assigned to team from league
W – waiver pick
Wf – first year waiver pick
Wr – returned to original team after waiver pick
Wv – waiver pick voided
X – expansion draft
Xp – added as expansion pick at a later date
Z – voluntarily retired
Zr – returned from voluntarily retired list

By: dave

dave — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:52:17 +0000

I would assume offering / accepting arbitration would be a pretty boring graph based on teams and players usually doing it on the final allowable days?

By: Pip

Pip — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:51:43 +0000

Thank you, Brian! And thanks, Retrosheet.

By: Brian Walton

Brian Walton — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:35:03 +0000

Nice work!

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