BOSTON — Shortstop Xander Bogaerts agreed to a $4.5 million salary and outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. agreed to a $3.6 million contract as seven Boston players avoided arbitration by accepting one-year deals with the Red Sox.
Boston also reached agreements with infielder Brock Holt, catcher Sandy Leon and pitchers Joe Kelly, Robbie Ross Jr. and Tyler Thornburg. Left-handers Fernando Abad and Drew Pomeranz are the team’s only remaining arbitration-eligible players.
Bogaerts posted career highs last year in home runs (21), on-base percentage (.356) and slugging percentage (.446). Bradley hit .267 with 26 homers and 87 RBI.
ORIOLES: Star infielder Manny Machado and ace closer Zach Britton received hefty raises and will make more than $11 million each after reaching agreements on one-year deals.
Chris Tillman, the ace of the starting rotation, also settled at $10.05 million, with all three players avoiding arbitration.
Machado, 24, will get $11.5 million. He made $5.05 million last season, when he set career highs with 37 home runs, 96 RBI and a .294 batting average. He had 114 starts at third base and 43 at shortstop.
Britton will get $11.4 million. He made $6.9 million last season, when he went 47 for 47 in save opportunities, had a 0.54 ERA and finished fourth in Cy Young voting.
Baltimore also re-signed utility player Ryan Flaherty of Portland to a $1.8 million contract.
NATIONALS: Bryce Harper agreed to a $13,625,000 contract for 2017, more than doubling the slugging outfielder’s salary two years before he can become a free agent for the first time.
The Nationals also reached one-year deals with their three other arbitration-eligible players – third baseman Anthony Rendon ($5.8 million), right-hander Tanner Roark ($4,315,000) and new catcher Derek Norris ($4.2 million).
Harper, 24, struggled with injuries last season and took a big step back after becoming the youngest unanimous MVP in baseball history in 2015. The four-time All-Star hit only .243 with 24 homers and 86 RBI.
CUBS: Ace right-hander Jake Arrieta agreed to a $15,637,500, one-year deal.
Arrieta went 18-8 with a 3.10 ERA last season, helping Chicago to its first World Series title since 1908. He won the NL Cy Young Award in 2015 and is 54-21 with a 2.52 ERA in three-plus seasons with the Cubs.
ROCKIES: Gold Glove third baseman Nolan Arenado agreed to a $29.5 million, two-year deal.
Arenado tied for the NL lead with 41 home runs last season and he drove in a major league-best 133 runs. He also won his fourth consecutive Gold Glove.
METS: All-Star closer Jeurys Familia got a sizable raise while still waiting to find out whether he’ll be suspended under baseball’s domestic violence policy.
Familia, 27, agreed to a $7,425,000 contract, up from $4.1 million last season. He led the majors with a franchise-record 51 saves. Last month, a judge dismissed a charge stemming from a domestic violence complaint against Familia after the reliever’s wife told a prosecutor that her husband did not hurt her. MLB has said its investigation is ongoing.
Mets starters Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom, who both had season-ending surgery, also settled on one-year contracts. Harvey got a raise to $5,125,000 from $4,325,000, and deGrom’s salary increased to $4.05 million from $607,000.
ROYALS: All-Star first baseman Eric Hosmer agreed on a $12.25 million contract, avoiding arbitration with a deal that could take him to free agency.
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