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Giolito, López agree to terms, avoid arbitration

The White Sox, breaking news themselves as is their norm, tweeted out just before today’s arbitration-avoidance deadline that they’d come to agreement with their remaining two possible cases, Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López:

The #WhiteSox have agreed to terms on one-year contracts with right-handed pitchers Lucas Giolito ($4.150-million) and Reynaldo López ($2.1-million), avoiding arbitration with both players.

— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) January 15, 2021

The Giolito agreement is rather audacious, as the ace accepted, for some reason, more than $1 million less than MLBTR had projected for him ($5.