{"id":530593,"date":"2026-01-21T08:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530593\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:31:46","slug":"bryce-miller-seattle-mariners-agree-to-contract-w-2027-option-to-avoid-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530593\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Miller, Seattle Mariners agree to contract w\/2027 option to avoid arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Seattle Mariners and RHP Bryce Miller have agreed on a contract, allowing both parties to avoid arbitration. The deal guarantees Miller $2.4375 million for the 2026 season, along with a team option <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/passanthalbot.bsky.social\/post\/3mcv6azmktu2j\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly worth<\/a> $6.075 million for the 2027 campaign in lieu of his traditional second year of arbitration eligibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The cost-certainty for Seattle is a common benefit and priority for the club, and it\u2019s unsurprising to see a deal of this sort be the result of the relatively minor discrepancy between the two parties at the filing deadline. Miller filed at $2.625 million initially, with Seattle less than $400,000 away at $2.25 million. Instead, this deal allows for Miller to be recognized for his work thus far, while insulating Seattle to a certain degree from the prospect that his injury-hampered 2025 might bleed over into the 2027 season. Conversely, a return to 2024 form or expanding upon it would likely stand to earn the righty a greater sum than the six million-ish total he\u2019s agreed to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per Jon Heyman of the New York Post, the deal includes a buyout for $15,000 for the 2027 season if declined (though this sum is so negligible in the realm of MLB contracts it seems possible there\u2019s a missing zero), as well as an escalator for the club option to be nullified and returned to Arb 2 if Miller finishes in the top-5 of Cy Young voting in 2026. The deal will extend into 2027, however assuming Miller sees his deal picked up for the coming season (highly likely), Miller will be eligible for Arb 3 in 2028 as scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Mariners and RHP Bryce Miller have agreed on a contract, allowing both parties to avoid arbitration.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,45691,43335,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-530593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-mariners","13":"tag-seattle-mariners-good-news","14":"tag-seattle-mariners-regular-news","15":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115932160584418989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}