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Reds, Billy Hamilton avoid arbitration with 1 year $2.625 million deal

Friday marks the deadline for teams and arbitration-eligible players to exchange dollar amounts, and the Cincinnati Reds have four such players with whom they’ll be negotiating terms. Zack Cozart, Blake Wood, Tony Cingrani, and Billy Hamilton constitute the team's arb-eligible portion for the 2017 season, and it was Billy Hamilton who became the first to settle on an agreed upon number with the Reds, as Fan Rag's Jon Heyman reported.

Billy hamilton, reds settle at $2.625M

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January 13, 2017

At $2.