ARLINGTON -- The Rangers have reached agreements with their three remaining arbitration cases.
Left-handed pitcher Jake Diekman reached an agreement on a one-year contract worth $2,712,000 while right-handed pitcher Keone Kela settled at $1.2 million and infielder Jurickson Profar at $1.05 million.
The Rangers have not had an arbitration hearing with a player since Lee Stevens in 2000.
Kela enters the 2018 season as one of the leading candidates to be the Rangers' closer. The crucial factor is health: Kela was on the disabled list twice last season with a strained right shoulder, and missed almost three months in 2016 while recovering from elbow surgery.