Gibbons Signs 1-Year Deal With Dodgers
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jay Gibbons has signed a one-year deal to stay with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Gibbons will receive the major league minimum: $400,000 plus a cost-of-living adjustment to be announced next month.
The team said Thursday it reached a deal with the free-agent outfielder whose contract it purchased from Triple-A Albuquerque in August. It was his first time back in the majors in three years.
Gibbons, one of several players implicated in the Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in December 2007, received a 15-game suspension a week before the report was released.
The discipline was eliminated as part of an agreement between the players' union and the owners for more frequent testing and increased authority for the major league drug program's outside administrator.
Earlier Thursday, outfielder Scott Podsednik declined his option to return to the Dodgers, who had already exercised their half of a $2 million mutual option. He becomes a free agent.
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