Rockies All-Star shortstop Trevor Story has agreed to a two-year, $27.5 million contract with the club, according to ESPN's Jeff Passan.
Story and the Rockies were previously $750K apart in salary arbitration figures. Interestingly, the deal is not a contract extension but a two-year deal that will expire at the same time he was already scheduled to hit free agency. Instead, the deal allows them to avoid going to arbitration in both this offseason and next year.
Story made two All-Star teams in his first four seasons with Colorado. The 27-year-old is coming off a year in which he set career highs in runs (111), batting average (.