Davis gets record one-year salary

A’s give slugger $16.5 million, while closer Treinen is team’s lone arbitration eligible player

The A’s are making sure their key pieces from last year’s playoff run get paid.

The club announced Friday it has reached an agreement to avoid arbitration with Khris Davis, Marcus Semien, Mark Canha, Sean Manaea, and newcomer Jurickson Profar. The home run king of 2018, Davis will be rewarded with a $16.5 million salary, the highest ever given out to an A’s player over a single season since the $12.5 million given to

Eric Chavez in 2010.

Just one A’s player remains eligible for arbitration, and it’s a pretty important one — Blake Treinen.

To keep it simple, Treinen was unreal last season. The closer’s 0.78 ERA not only led all major league relievers in 2018, but it also qualified for fifth-lowest by any pitcher with at least 40 innings pitched, just behind some other guy who was also known for his dominant late-inning ways around these parts, Dennis Eckersley.

Registering exactly 100 strikeouts, Treinen also earned a unique record as he became the first reliever in MLB history to record at least 30 saves, 100 strikeouts, and a sub-1.00 ERA.

So how much money will he get?

Entering his second year of arbitration, the 30-year-old right-hander’s projected arbitration number sits at $5.8 million, which would be a nice raise from his 2018 salary of $2.1 million.

Treinen and the A’s remain at odds on what they believe is a fair salary, but there is still Treinen