Fri 1/18/13 1:33 PM

Red Sox avoided arbitration with OF Jacoby Ellsbury by agreeing to a one-year, $9 million contract. He gets less than a $1 million raise from his salary from 2012, when he was limited to just 74 games due to injury. Ellsbury has a chance to strike it rich in a free agent deal next winter if he can manage to stay healthy during his walk year.