The Red Sox and OF Jacoby Ellsbury avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $8.05 million contract.
Ellsbury gets a massive and well-deserved raise from his $2.4 million salary from 2011 after batting .321/.376/.552 with 32 homers, 105 RBI, 39 stolen bases, 119 runs scored and .928 OPS last season. The 28-year-old center fielder was arbitration-eligible for the second time this winter.
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