PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Josh Bell’s breakout season earned him a hefty pay bump going into 2020. Bell will make $4.8 million this season after agreeing to a deal ahead of Friday’s arbitration deadline. The 27-year-old hit .277 with 37 home runs and 116 RBIs while making the All-Star team for the first time in 2019. Bell’s signing was the most notable on a busy day for the revamped Pirates. New general manager Ben Cherington agreed to terms with all eight of Pittsburgh’s arbitration eligible players, with Bell’s pay increase from $597,000 last season to more than eight times that amount in 2020 the biggest of the bunch.

Reliever Keone Kela will make $3,725,000 and could move into the closer’s role this spring after going 2-0 with one save and a 2.12 ERA in 32 games in 2019. Second baseman Adam Frazier agreed at $2.8 million. He saw action in a career-high 152 games in 2019, hitting .277 and becoming one of the better defenders at his position in the process.

Starting pitcher Joe Musgrove will also make $2.8 million. Musgrove went 11-12 with a 4.44 ERA and a career-high 157 strikeouts in 31 starts last season. Starting pitcher Trevor Williams will make $2,825,000 as he tries to recapture the form he showed in the second half of 2018. Williams went 7-9 with a 5.38 ERA in 26 starts last year while dealing with minor health problems that made it difficult to find any consistency. Staff ace Jameson Taillon agreed to a one-year deal worth $2 million, though he will spend all of 2020 recovering from a second Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. Pitcher Chad Kuhl will make $840,000 as he returns from Tommy John surgery that forced him to sit out all of 2019. Right-handed reliever Michael Feliz signed for $1.1 million. Feliz posted a 3.99 ERA and 1.26 WHIP with 73 strikeouts in 56 1/3 innings for the Pirates in 2019.