The Twins have avoided arbitration by agreeing to one-year contracts with utilityman Ehire Adrianza and pitchers Trevor May and Ryan Pressly, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.
Adrianza (pictured) hit .265/.324/.383 with two home runs and 24 RBI last season with the Twins. The 28-year-old came to the Twins after three seasons with the Giants. He played all four infield positions, the outfield and designated hitter last season. His deal is worth $1 million.
May's contract will be worth $650,000 and Pressly will get $1.6 million.
Pressly, 29, pitched in 57 games last season and had 61 strikeouts in 61.1 innings, with a 1.158 WHIP and 4.70 ERA. He spent part of the season at Class AAA Rochester.
May, 28, was injured last season, suffering a torn elbow ligament in March. He pitched the previous three seasons, and 102 games, for the Twins.
Outfielder Robbie Grossman and pitcher Kyle Gibson are the Twins' remaining arbitration eligible players. Teams and players were set to exchange figures today.
Infielder Eduardo Escobar, the sixth arbitration-eligible Twin, agreed to a $4.85 deal on Thursday.
La Velle E. Neal III has covered baseball for the Star Tribune since 1998 (the post-Knoblauch era). Born and raised in Chicago, he grew up following the White Sox and hating the Cubs. He attended both the University of Illinois and Illinois-Chicago and began his baseball writing career at the Kansas City Star. He can be heard occasionally on KFAN radio, lending his great baseball mind to Paul Allen and other hosts. Mark Rosen borrows him occasionally for WCCO-TV.
Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.
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