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The KC Royals chose the right path to avoid arbitration with Adalberto Mondesi and Brad Keller.
What arbitration suspense remained for the KC Royals disappeared Friday when the club reached contract agreements with Adalberto Mondesi and Brad Keller. The two stars were the last Kansas City arbitration-eligible players with whom the Royals hadn’t settled, or released or non-tendered.
Both appeared to be candidates for early contract extensions but agreed, on the day they and the club were to exchange arbitration figures, to one-year deals reportedly worth $2.525 million for Mondesi and $3.