{"id":552061,"date":"2026-02-03T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/552061\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:42:40","slug":"luis-arraez-and-giants-agree-on-12-million-1-year-deal-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/552061\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Arraez and Giants agree on $12 million, 1-year deal, AP source says"},"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 <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harrison-bader-san-francisco-giants-4b5d25ac0ba373c2ad193f6466ddbea4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giants added center fielder Harrison Bader<\/a> on a $20.5 million, two-year contract \u2014 meaning <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/giants-outfield-changes-lee-bader-3032592c26c5281a30b54b16b5401022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jung Hoo Lee will now play right field.<\/a><\/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: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/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":552062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,2178,162,365,375,85,4,256,137,18,378,66,4343,4340,70356,4344,4341,4342,185,1870],"class_list":{"0":"post-552061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-harrison-bader","12":"tag-jung-hoo-lee","13":"tag-luis-arraez","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-mlb-baseball","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-padres","18":"tag-san-francisco","19":"tag-san-francisco-giants","20":"tag-sanfrancisco","21":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","22":"tag-send-to-apple-news","23":"tag-sf","24":"tag-sf-giants","25":"tag-sfgiants","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-tony-vitello"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116006285766861159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552061","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=552061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}