Update 1/21 05:21am: According to Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times, Broxton’s contract has an escalator clause that can increase his second year salary by as much as $500,000 based on number of games finished or his placing in the Rolaids Relief Award.

Tony Jackson of ESPN.com reports that the Los Angeles Dodgers avoided going to salary arbitration by coming to an agreement with several players: reliever George Sherrill (one-year, $4.5 million), reliever Hong-Chih Kuo (one-year, $950,000), catcher Russell Martin (one-year, $5.5 million) and first baseman James Loney (one-year $3.1 million).

The team also signed closer Jonathan Broxton and right fielder Andre Ethier each to two-year deals pending the outcome of physical examinations. Terms of the deals were not immediately available.