Arbitration update: Capps, Perkins, Liriano, Young, Slowey

Capps cashes in after wracking up 42 saves last year.

January 18, 2011 at 11:34PM

The Twins avoided arbitration with righthander Matt Capps, signing him to a one-year, $7.15 million contract, and lefthander Glen Perkins, signing him to a one-year, $700,000 contract.

Other potential arbitration cases include Delmon Young, Francisco Liriano and Kevin Slowey. The deadline for the sides to submit official offers was noon, and those figures will be released later this afternoon, unless these players reach agreement first.

Update: Here are the official arbitration figures:

Young: Team filed at $4.65 million. He filed at $6.25 million. (Midpoint is $5.45 million)

Liriano: Team filed at $3.6 million. He filed at $5.0 million. (Midpoint is $4.3 million)

Slowey: Team filed at $2.3 million. He filed at $3.1 million. (Midpoint is $2.7 million)

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Joe Christensen

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Joe Christensen, a Minnesota Star Tribune sports team leader, graduated from the University of Minnesota and spent 15 years covering Major League Baseball, including stops at the Riverside Press-Enterprise and Baltimore Sun. He joined the Minnesota Star Tribune in 2005 and spent four years covering Gophers football.

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