Brewers' Wily Peralta: Avoids arbitration with Brewers

Peralta and the Brewers avoided arbitration on Friday with a one-year, $4.275 million deal, Jon Heyman of Today's Knuckleball reports.

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Peralta posted a career-worse 4.86 ERA in 127.2 innings in 2016, but will still get a significant pay raise through the arbitration system. However, the 27-year-old will likely need to turn things around in 2017, lest the rebuilding Brewers deem him and his salary expendable.