The Red Sox have avoided arbitration with center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury by agreeing to a one-year, $8.05 million deal, according to a source. Ellsbury's one-year salary is the highest ever for a player in his second year of salary arbitration. The Red Sox have not gone to a single salary arbitration hearing with a player while Theo Epstein was general manager, a streak that new general manager Ben Cherington would like to continue. David Ortiz accepted salary arbitration after rejecting a two-year, $18 million offer from the club.