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Pirates Avoid Arbitration with Drew Hutchison and Jared Hughes

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have avoided salary arbitration with right-handed pitcher Drew Hutchison, agreeing on a one-year deal for $2.3 M according to Jon Heyman. Teams have until 1 PM Friday to exchange salary figures with players. The Pirates still have not come to terms with Gerrit Cole, Tony Watson, Jared Hughes, Jordy Mercer and Juan Nicasio, so you can expect more agreements to be announced before tomorrow’s deadline. The Pirates are one of many “file and trial” team, meaning once they exchange figures with a player, then the negotiating ends and they will go to an arbitration hearing.

Hutchison received a $2.2 M salary last year from the Toronto Blue Jays in his first year of being arbitration eligible. He spent just 37 days in the majors in 2016 and fell short of reaching four full years of service time, so he will still be eligible for arbitration at least two more times before he reaches free agency. In 11.1 September innings with the Pirates, he allowed seven runs on 15 hits and three walks, while picking up ten strikeouts.

UPDATE 10:10 PM: Jon Heyman reports that the Pirates have also avoided arbitration with Jared Hughes, settling at $2.825 M. Hughes gets a bump up from $2.175 M in 2016, when he posted a 3.03 ERA and 4.68 FIP in 59.1 innings over 67 appearances, with 34 strikeouts and a 1.42 WHIP.

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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