Wang, Fuentes, Valverde lose in arbitration

Pitchers Chien-Ming Wang, Brian Fuentes and Jose Valverde lost in salary arbitration Friday as baseball teams improved to 4-0 with five cases potentially remaining this year. Two players who had been scheduled for hearings next week reached agreements, with Cincinnati giving second baseman Brandon Phillips a $27 million, four-year contract and Seattle settling on a $7 million, one-year deal with pitcher Erik Bedard, obtained from Baltimore last week. [link]