Arizona Diamondbacks sign Wilmer Flores

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesJeff Passan of ESPN [I’m still having consciously not to type Yahoo!] was the first to report the news, following up on a report by colleague Pedro Gomez. It’s pending physicals, and there’s no word to this point on the price. Flores was non-tendered by the Mets at the end of November: he was in his third year of arbitration eligibility and was probably going to have received a sizeable increase on his $3.4 million salary for 2018 (MLBTR estimated $4.7m). He appeared in 126 games for New York, hitting .267/.319/.417, for a .736 OPS (107 OPS+). Last season, he started most at first, but also at second and third; overall in his career, Flores has seen more time at short, but hasn’t appeared much there since 2015.

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