SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Free agent infielder Luis Arraez and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $12 million, one-year contract, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Saturday night because the deal was subject to a successful physical and had not been announced.
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FILE - San Diego Padres' Luis Arraez reacts after striking out during the third inning of Game 1 of a National League wild card baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Sept. 30, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Huh, File)
FILE - San Francisco Giants' Jung Hoo Lee hits a single during the third inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Sept. 6, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
FILE - Philadelphia Phillies' Harrison Bader runs during a baseball game Sept. 26, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE -San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey sits during a press conference introducing Tony Vitello as the new manager of the San Francisco Giants baseball team on Oct. 30, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File)
A three-time batting champion, Arraez led the National League in hits the past two seasons and is expected to be San Francisco’s second baseman for new manager Tony Vitello.
The 28-year-old Arraez, a left-handed hitter, batted .292 with eight home runs, 61 RBIs, 181 hits and 11 stolen bases for the San Diego Padres last year. The three-time All-Star spent his first five major league seasons with the Minnesota Twins before they traded him to the Miami Marlins in January 2023. San Diego acquired him in May 2024.
Earlier in the week, the Giants added center fielder Harrison Bader on a $20.5 million, two-year contract — meaning Jung Hoo Lee will now play right field.
San Francisco has missed the playoffs in each of the past four years since winning the NL West with a franchise-record 107 victories in 2021.
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FILE - San Diego Padres' Luis Arraez reacts after striking out during the third inning of Game 1 of a National League wild card baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Sept. 30, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Huh, File)
FILE - San Francisco Giants' Jung Hoo Lee hits a single during the third inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Sept. 6, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
FILE - Philadelphia Phillies' Harrison Bader runs during a baseball game Sept. 26, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE -San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey sits during a press conference introducing Tony Vitello as the new manager of the San Francisco Giants baseball team on Oct. 30, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File)
Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority, telling President Donald Trump that the Democratic district “topples corrupt presidencies.”
Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025.
The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year.
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t schedule the first round of voting until November. Menefee and Edwards were the top vote-getters in a 16-candidate, all-parties primary. They advanced to a runoff because no candidate won a majority of the vote.
Speaking to supporters at his victory party, Menefee promised to fight for universal health insurance, seek to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and “tear ICE up from the roots.”
He also addressed Trump directly after noting that one of the district's most storied representatives, Democrat Barbara Jordan, was an eloquent voice for President Richard Nixon's impeachment ahead of his 1974 resignation.
“The results here tonight are a mandate for me to work as hard as I can to oppose your agenda, to fight back against where you’re taking this country and to investigate your crimes," Menefee said.
Menefee will fill the remainder of Turner's term, which ends when a new Congress is sworn in to office in January 2027.
Abbott had argued that Houston officials needed the six months between Turner’s death and the first round of voting to prepare for the special election, but Democrats criticized the long wait as a move designed to give the GOP a slightly bigger cushion in the House for difficult votes.
While campaigning Saturday, Edwards, 44, referenced the long vacancy in a video she posted to social media, saying voters have gone too long without a voice in Washington.
“Today marks the day where you're finally going to get your voice back,” she said.
Menefee, 37, was endorsed by several prominent Texas Democrats including former congressman Beto O’Rourke and Rep. Jasmine Crockett. He was joined Saturday by Crockett, who is running for the U.S. Senate.
Menefee ousted an incumbent in 2020 to become Harris County’s first Black county attorney, representing it in civil cases, and he has joined legal challenges of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration.
Edwards served four years on the Houston City Council starting in 2016. She ran for U.S. Senate in 2020 but finished fifth in a 12-person primary. She unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in the 2024 primary, and when Lee died that July, local Democrats narrowly nominated Turner over Edwards as Lee’s replacement.
Menefee finished ahead of Edwards in the primary, but Edwards picked up the endorsement of the third-place finisher, state Rep. Jolanda Jones, who said Edwards had skills “best suited to go against Trump.”
After Saturday, yet another election lies ahead in little over a month. Both Menefee and Edwards are on the ballot again on March 3, when they will face Democratic Rep. Al Green in another election — this one a Democratic primary in a newly drawn 18th congressional district, for the full term that starts in 2027.
GOP lawmakers who control Texas state government drew a new map last summer for this year’s midterms, pushed by Trump to create five more winnable seats for Republicans to help preserve their majority.
Winter weather added to voters' confusion, forcing local officials to cancel two days of advance voting this week, prompting civil rights group to go to court to win a two-day extension, into Thursday.
Texas Congressional Candidate Christian Menefee speaks to supporters during his watch party at The Post Houston on Election Day, in Houston, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/ Karen Warren)
Texas Congressional Candidate Christian Menefee speaks to supporters during his watch party at The Post Houston on Election Day, in Houston, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/ Karen Warren)
Texas Congressional Candidate Amanda Edwards waves at a voter at a polling location at Acres Homes MultiService Center on Election Day, in Houston, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/ Karen Warren)
Texas Congressional Candidate Christian D. Menefee holds up one of his flyers as a voter passes by in a car while he visited a polling location at Acres Homes MultiService Center on Election Day, in Houston, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/ Karen Warren)
Texas Congressional Candidate Amanda Edwards waves at a voter at a polling location at Acres Homes MultiService Center on Election Day, in Houston, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/ Karen Warren)
Texas Congressional Candidate Christian D. Menefee gets a photo with poll worker, Jessica Barraza, as he visited a polling location at Acres Homes MultiService Center on Election Day, in Houston, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/ Karen Warren)
Texas Congressional Candidate Christian D. Menefee shakes hands with Patrick Edge, a poll worker for Amanda Edwards, as he visited a polling location at Acres Homes MultiService Center on Election Day, in Houston, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/ Karen Warren)
