LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers avoided salary arbitration with pitcher Joe Wieland, signing him to a one-year contract for 2016. He will earn $590,000 next season, per Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times.
The deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players is Wednesday night.
He made $590,000 in 2015. Wieland, with three years and 27 days of major league service time, was eligible for salary arbitration in 2016. MLB Trade Rumors projected Wieland to make the major league minimum next season, set at $507,500.
Wieland, acquired from the Padres in December 2014 as part of the Yasmani Grandal / Matt Kemp trade, had a rough first year in his new organization, but most importantly he was healthy all year after being limited to 87u2153 innings total from 2012-2014, now recovered from Tommy John surgery.