{"id":548737,"date":"2026-02-01T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/548737\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:27:16","slug":"luis-arraez-and-giants-agree-on-12-million-1-year-contract-ap-source-says-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/548737\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Arraez and Giants agree on $12 million, 1-year contract, AP source says :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Free agent infielder Luis Arraez and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $12 million, one-year contract, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Saturday night because the deal was subject to a successful physical and had not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>A three-time batting champion, Arraez led the National League in hits the past two seasons and is expected to be San Francisco\u2019s second baseman for new manager Tony Vitello. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Arraez, a left-handed hitter, batted .292 with eight home runs, 61 RBIs, 181 hits and 11 stolen bases for the San Diego Padres last year. The three-time All-Star spent his first five major league seasons with the Minnesota Twins before they traded him to the Miami Marlins in January 2023. San Diego acquired him in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, the Giants added center fielder Harrison Bader on a $20.5 million, two-year contract \u2014 meaning Jung Hoo Lee will now play right field.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco has missed the playoffs in each of the past four years since winning the NL West with a franchise-record 107 victories in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Free agent infielder Luis Arraez and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2408],"tags":[58652,1769,5,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-548737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-giants","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","17":"tag-sf","18":"tag-sf-giants","19":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115993958454830376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548737","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=548737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}