Steven Wright and the Red Sox will avoid arbitration.
The two sides agreed to a one-year, $1.375 million deal on Thursday, NBC Sports Boston's Red Sox insider Evan Drellich confirms.
Wright, an All-Star in 2016, missed time early in the 2018 season while recovering from left knee surgery and also serving a 15-game domestic violence suspension. The knuckleballer returned for four starts and six relief appearances before being placed on the disabled list again in June due to his knee, and then returning for another brief stint in September.
The 34-year-old right-hander posted a 3-1 record with a 2.68 ERA in his four starts in 16 relief appearances during the 2018 regular season.
Wright is the third Red Sox player to avoid arbitration by agreeing to a new deal, joining relievers Tyler Thornburg and Heath Hembree.
The Sox now face a 1 p.m. Friday deadline to exchange salary figures with nine other players before the sides head to arbitration hearings. Those are Mookie Betts, who went through an interesting arbitration process a year ago, Xander Bogaerts, Jackie Bradley Jr., Brock Holt, Sandy Leon, Blake Swihart, Matt Barnes, Eduardo Rodriguez, and Brandon Workman.
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