Baseball-Major League Baseball roundup

Jan 16 (The Sports Xchange) - The Detroit Tigers and left-handed pitcher David Price agreed to a one-year, $19.75 million deal to avoid arbitration, according to reports Friday. The agreement, which has yet to be announced, is the largest one-year deal for a player who filed for arbitration, topping right-hander Max Scherzer's $15,525,000 agreement with the Tigers last year. Price, 29, was traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to the Tigers in July. He had previously spent his entire career with the Rays, winning the Cy Young Award in 2012. In 2014, Price went 15-12 with a 3.26 ERA and a league-leading 271 strikeouts in 248 1/3 innings, including a 4-4 mark with a 3.59 ERA in 11 starts for Detroit. He is 86-51 with a 3.21 ERA in seven MLB seasons. Price, a four-time All-Star, made $14 million last year. - - - The New York Yankees officially signed infielder Stephen Drew to a one-year contract. Drew reportedly reached agreement on a $5 million deal earlier this month. Drew, 31, hit .162 with seven home runs and 26 RBIs in 85 games with the Yankees and Boston Red Sox in 2014. - - - Settling three of their potential eight arbitration cases, the Los Angeles Angels came to terms with catcher Drew Butera and left-handed pitchers Cesar Ramos and Hector Santiago on one-year deals. Butera will make $987,000 in 2015. Ramos will earn $1,312,500, and Santiago will get $2.29 million. - - - The Washington Nationals avoided arbitration with catcher Wilson Ramos and reliever Craig Stammen on Thursday. Both signed one-year deals with Ramos' worth $3.55 million and Stammen's worth $2.25 million. - - - Randy Johnson selected the Arizona Diamondbacks logo to appear on the cap of his Hall of Fame plaque. Johnson, Biggio, Martinez and Smoltz were elected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America on Jan. 6. The new class will be formally inducted on July 26 in Cooperstown, N.Y. - - - Brandon Welch, a pitcher in the New York Mets' minor league system, was suspended for 50 games on Friday after a second positive test for a drug of abuse. Welch will begin serving the suspension at the start of the 2015 season. He is on the roster of Class A Brooklyn in the New York-Penn League. (Editing by Gene Cherry)