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Pirates Avoid Arbitration With Jeff Locke

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and Jeff Locke have agreed on a $3.025M salary for 2016 according to Ken Rosenthal, thus avoiding arbitration. Locke was projected to receive $3.5M this year, so the Pirates got him for almost $500K less than the estimated cost. Locke made 30 starts in 2015 and had a 4.49 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, with 129 strikeouts in 168.1 innings.

Earlier in the day, the Pirates and Chris Stewart agreed on a two-year deal which avoided arbitration and covered the first year of free agency. It also included a team option for 2018.

The Pirates had a total of seven players file for arbitration yesterday. That leaves Francisco Cervelli, Mark Melancon, Tony Watson, Jared Hughes and Jordy Mercer without agreements at this time. Like many clubs have started doing recently, the Pirates are a “file and trial” club, which means if they don’t come to an agreement by tomorrow’s deadline, then they will go to arbitration with the player(s).

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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