Fri 1/17/14 1:18 PM

Rays avoided arbitration with RHP Jeremy Hellickson by agreeing to a one-year, $3.625 million contract. It was Hellickson's first year of arbitration eligibility. The right gets a big salary boost even after putting up a 5.17 ERA this past season. He'll fill the No. 5 starter role for the Rays in 2014.