Jan 20, 2026, 05:28 PM ET<\/p>\n
SEATTLE — Right-hander Bryce Miller<\/a> and the Seattle Mariners<\/a> avoided salary arbitration, agreeing Tuesday to a one-year contract that includes a club option and guarantees $2,452,500.<\/p>\n Miller gets a $2,437,500 salary this year — the midpoint between the $2,625,000 he had asked for and the $2.25 million that Mariners had offered when the sides swapped proposed arbitration salaries on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Seattle’s option is for $6,075,000 with a $15,000 buyout. If he finishes among the top five in Cy Young Award voting, the option would be voided but Miller still would receive the buyout.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old was 4-6 with a 5.68 ERA in 18 regular-season starts last year, when he earned $800,000. He was on the injured list with right elbow inflammation from May 14-31 and from June 10 to Aug. 19. Miller was 1-1 with a 2.51 ERA in the postseason<\/p>\n He is 24-21 with a 4.01 ERA in 74 starts over three major league seasons.<\/p>\n Miller was Seattle’s last player still eligible for arbitration. The Mariners previously agreed to one-year deals with outfielder Randy Arozarena<\/a> ($15.65 million), right-handers Matt Brash<\/a> ($1.55 million), Logan Gilbert<\/a> ($10,927,000) and George Kirby<\/a> ($6.55 million), left-hander Gabe Speier<\/a> ($2,125,000) and infielder\/outfielder Luke Raley<\/a> ($2.05 million).<\/p>\n Sixteen players remain scheduled for hearings, to be held from Jan. 26 to Feb. 13 in Scottdale, Arizona.<\/p>\n In the most prominent case, two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal<\/a> asked for a record $32 million, while the Detroit Tigers<\/a> offered the left-hander $19 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 20, 2026, 05:28 PM ET SEATTLE — Right-hander Bryce Miller and the Seattle Mariners avoided salary arbitration,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-419654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}