Kevin Frandsen Still Has An Option Left
This was a surprise to me as he used the normal three options allowed in 2006, 2007, and 2009 (on MLB DL or Roster for all of 2008). So I went to Cots Transactions Glossary and looked up Options to see if I could figure out how Kevin could still have an option left. Turns out that baseball has a funky rule that creates a forth option year for a player that does not yet have five full years of professional service and Frandsen falls under this rule. You might ask, how is this possible since Kevin began his professional career at Salem Keizer in 2004? Well, the answer is that short season leagues don't count as professional years and neither do seasons in which you have less then 60 days of non DL time like 2008 in Frandsen's case. Thus in Kevin's case only 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009 count as professional seasons and thus he does not yet have five of them.