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Orioles avoid arbitration with Dylan Bundy, Mychal Givens, Jonathan Villar ahead of Friday deadline

The Orioles agreed to contract terms for the 2019 season with their three players eligible for salary arbitration — starter Dylan Bundy, closer Mychal Givens, and infielder Jonathan Villar — ahead of Friday’s deadline, according to an industry source.

With the agreements, the team avoids what could be contentious salary arbitration hearings with three of their most established major league players on a team that's likely to be short on them.

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Bundy, the 26-year-old former first-round pick, is in his first year of salary arbitration, though because he signed a major league contract when the Orioles selected him fourth overall in the 2011 MLB draft, he was making above the minimum salary in the years since — he made a reported $1.