{"id":395953,"date":"2026-01-06T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395953\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:54:09","slug":"kutter-crawford-red-sox-reach-1-year-deal-avoid-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395953\/","title":{"rendered":"Kutter Crawford, Red Sox reach 1-year deal, avoid arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON — Right-hander Kutter Crawford<\/a>, who missed all of last season with knee and wrist injuries, avoided arbitration with the Boston Red Sox<\/a> when he agreed Tuesday to a $2.75 million, one-year contract.<\/p>\n

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Crawford, who gets the same salary he had last year, went 9-16 with a 4.36 ERA in 2024, when he led the majors with 16 losses and 34 home runs allowed. He started last season on the injured list with a sore knee and had surgery in July on his right wrist.<\/p>\n

In his career, Crawford, 29, has an 18-31 record with a 4.56 ERA.<\/p>\n

Four Boston players remain eligible for arbitration: right-handers Tanner Houck<\/a> and Johan Oviedo<\/a>, first baseman Triston Casas<\/a> and second baseman Romy Gonzalez<\/a>. Players and teams are set to exchange proposed salaries Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON — Right-hander Kutter Crawford, who missed all of last season with knee and wrist injuries, avoided arbitration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-395953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}