River Avenue Blues · Jan 19, 2016
Yankees, Eovaldi agree to one-year deal to avoid arbitration
(Getty)5:15pm: Jon Heyman says the contract is worth $5.6M, so they settled at the midpoint of the two filing numbers.
5:14pm: The Yankees have agreed to a non-guaranteed one-year contract with Nathan Eovaldi, avoiding arbitration, the team announced. Financial terms of the deal are unknown. I’m sure they’ll be reported soon enough. Eovaldi is under team control through 2017.
Prior to last Friday’s deadline, Eovaldi filed for a $6.3M salary while the Yankees countered with $4.9M. The midpoint is $5.6M, which is slightly under MLBTR’s $5.7M projection. I thought there was a chance the Yankees would look to sign Eovaldi long-term given the cost of pitching, but it didn’t happen.