Ryan O’Hearn And Baltimore Orioles Agree To $3.5 Million Deal And Avoid Arbitration – News18

SARASOTA, Fla.: First baseman/outfielder Ryan O’Hearn and the Baltimore Orioles averted a wage arbitration listening to after they agreed Wednesday to a $3.5 million, one-yr contract.

The settlement was on the midpoint of the $3.8 million O’Hearn requested for and the $3.2 million the Orioles provided when the edges exchanged proposed arbitration salaries final month. The deal features a $7.5 million crew possibility for 2025, and the choice worth would escalate by $500,000 every for taking part in in 120 and 150 video games this yr.

O’Hearn, 30, set profession bests final yr with a .289 common and 60 RBIs and matched his excessive with 14 dwelling runs. He earned $1.4 million.

He had been the final Orioles participant nonetheless scheduled for a listening to.

Baltimore had a significant league-excessive 13 gamers eligible for arbitration forward of final month’s change and went to hearings with two, dropping to outfielder Austin Hays ($6.3 million as an alternative of $5.85 million) and proper-hander Jacob Webb ($1 million as an alternative of $925,000).

The Orioles agreed to 1-yr contracts with outfielders Anthony Santander ($11.7 million) and Cedric Mullins ($6,325,000); first baseman Ryan Mountcastle ($4,137,000); left-handers John Means ($3,325,000), Danny Coulombe ($2.3 million), Cole Irvin ($2 million) and Cionel Pérez ($1.2 million); proper-handers Tyler Wells ($1,962,500) and Dillon Tate ($1.5 million); and infielder Ramón Urías ($2.1 million).

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