CINCINNATI -- At the Friday deadline for clubs and eligible players to exchange salary figures, the Reds avoided arbitration by agreeing to one-year contracts with outfielder Billy Hamilton, starting pitcher Anthony DeSclafani and reliever Michael Lorenzen.
Terms of the deals were not immediately available. That left Cincinnati with two players eligible for arbitration in third baseman Eugenio Suarez and second baseman Scooter Gennett.
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