Royals’ Callaspo fails to qualify for arbitration

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Alberto Callaspo batted .300 with 11 homers and 73 RBIs in 155 games.

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Callaspo fails to qualify for arbitration
Royals second baseman Alberto Callaspo fell five days short of qualifying for arbitration under the labor agreement’s super-2 provision. That figures to cost him several hundred thousands of dollars.

Third baseman Alex Gordon, as expected, was one of 10 players who qualified for arbitration under the provision. The list was announced Wednesday.

Players gain the right to arbitration if they have three full seasons but less than six full seasons of major-league service. The super-2 provision extends eligibility to the top 17 percent of players who have at least two full years of service.

This year’s cutoff was two years and 139 days — and required a tiebreaker procedure between three players for the final spot. Gordon had two years and 162 days, but Callaspo finished at two years and 135 days.

Callaspo was in line for hefty raise, had he qualified, after batting .300 with 11 homers and 73 RBIs in 155 games. Instead, his 2010 salary projects as less than $500,000, up from $415,500 in 2009.

Gordon’s raise from $457,000 is harder to project because he missed roughly three months of last season while recovering from hip surgery. He batted just .232 with six homers and 22 RBIs in 49 games.

| Bob Dutton, bdutton@kcstar.com

Posted on Thu, Nov. 12, 2009 12:05 AM

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