Maurer and the Padres avoided arbitration with a one-year, $1.9 million settlement, Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Maurer's 4.52 ERA in 2016 doesn't look great for a closer at first glance, but he quickly shaped up once he started regularly seeing work in the ninth inning. He posted a 3.09 ERA and a 5.0 K/BB in 32 innings once he assumed closing duties, numbers that should make the Padres comfortable in handing him the job for 2017.