Padres and RHP Edinson Volquez avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $5.725 million contract.
Volquez was arbitration-eligible for the final time this winter. The 29-year-old gets a nice raise from the $2.2375 million he made last season after posting a 4.14 ERA and 174 strikeouts over 182 2/3 innings.












