Josh Collmenter gets 2-year contract


D-backs, RHP Collmenter avoid mediation

The Arizona Diamondbacks and right-handed reliever Josh Collmenter have prevented settlement by settling on a two-year agreement worth $2,425,000.

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Collmenter was 5-5 with a 3.13 AGE in 49 games last period. He led all NL relievers with 92 innings pitched and a club-record 9 relief looks of at the very least 3 innings. His 29 extra innings pitched were the most by a major leaguer since Pull McGraw had 29 in 1972.

The bargain Wednesday provides Collmenter a $925,000 salary this year and $1.4 million in 2015. He likewise gets a $100,000 signing benefit.

There is a club option for 2016 at $1,825,000, and the contract features a $2 million shared option for 2017. If Collmenter works out the 2017 choice and the team declines, he acquires a $150,000 buyout. If the pitcher declines that alternative, the group can choose it up for $2.25 million.

If all the options are exercised, Collmenter's deal could be worth as much as $6.5 million over four years.

In other arbitration deals got to Thursday, Ruben Tejada and the New York Mets accepted a $1.1 million, one-year agreement.

Tejada lost his job as the team's starting shortstop in 2012, when he was benched to the minors for months during an injury-plagued period. He missed time with a strained right quadriceps and cracked his best leg on Sept. 18, eight days after he was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas.

Tejada batted.202 with no homers, 10 RBIs and a distressing.519 OPS in 57 games. Yet assuming he's healthy by the start of the period, he's in line to start at shortstop once again considering that the Mets have actually been not able to find an appropriate upgrade this winter season.