It used to come around in the first or second week of June, but now it's more like the 2nd-to-3rd-week of July, so you might as well just say the trading deadline. That's when the Super-Two cutoff is these days.
What you're talking about is the service time barrier (on the ML roster for 172 of 182 "league days"). That's next week. Most teams give it a little time and call somebody up in the last week of April, but the season started pretty early this year.
We could call up Zunino next Friday and have him for an extra year (under likely Super-Two status, so he'd go to arb a bunch of times) vs. calling him up right now and losing club control on his 2019 season.
I don't expect that to happen. And it think it may be time for a Zunino post...
~G
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