Luis Arraez signing one-year, $12 million contract with Giants

One of top remaining free agents has found a new home.Luis Arraez has agreed to a one-year contract with the Giants, The Post’s Joel Sherman confirmed.ESPN reported the deal is worth $12 million.Arraez, with the Padres last season, led the National League with 180 hits, finishing the year with a .292/.327/.392 slash line across 154 games.

The 28-year-old is an anomaly in modern baseball, a game that now rewards power and slugging over contact hitters.But Arraez has consistently been the latter in his career, and he won three straight batting titles from 2022-24, leading all of MLB in ’23 with a .354 average.He’s an incredibly difficult hitter to strike out, as he’s whiffed just 215 times total over seven seasons.

His strikeout (3.5 percent) and swing-and-miss rate (5.3 percent) both ranked in the 100th percentile in MLB in 2025, according to Baseball Savant.On the flip side, though, his hard hit rate ranks in the 1st percentile.He’s spent the most of the last two seasons with the Padres, and he’ll now travel north to the Bay Area as the Giants look to make a run in the NL West.

Arraez has the ability to play both corner infield positions and second base, though he spent most of the time — 117 games — at first base in 2025.The Arraez pickup comes on the heels of outfielder Harrison Bader signing a two-year, $20.5 million contract with the Giants.The team will have a new look this season, at least in the dugout, with former Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello taking the reins as the new manager.After an 81-81, campaign, the Giants are looking to get over the hump and back into the postseason for the first time since 2021.Before the Arraez signing, the Giants ranked third in the NL West in Fangraphs’ projected WAR at 38.1....