DENVER -- Rockies center fielder Charlie Blackmon should be OK on gas money.
The Rockies and Blackmon agreed on a one-year, $3.5 million contract to avoid arbitration Monday. The deal leaves second baseman DJ LeMahieu as the team's lone unsigned arbitration-eligible player. The contract came in slightly above the $3.3 million midpoint between Blackmon's filing and the club's offer in his first year of arbitration eligibility.
The signing comes the week after a side-splitting social media post. Blackmon -- projected to be the Rockies' leadoff hitter for the third straight year -- was in Atlanta, stuck on the side of a road having run out of gas when he called LeMahieu, who also lives in Atlanta and is Blackmon's workout partner.