Yankees sign Greg Bird for one-year, $1.2M to avoid arbitration

With Friday being the deadline to exchange salaries for the 2019 season, the Yankees avoided arbitration with the much-maligned Greg Bird on a one-year, $1.2 million deal.

Despite a horrific showing across 82 games in 2018 for the Yankees, Greg Bird will receive a handsome raise from the $582,000 he took home last year.

On Thursday, the 26-year-old first baseman signed a one-year, $1.2 million contract. Bird still has two years remaining of arbitration eligibility.

Although MLB Trade Rumors projected Bird to make $1.5M for the upcoming season — and therefore fell $300k shy of that estimate, I’m still a little confounded as to how Bird managed to garner a $682,000 raise following his most…