Padres avoided arbitration with OF Will Venable by agreeing to a one-year, $2.675 million contract.
Venable made $1.475 million last season in the first of four arbitration years as a Super 2 player. The 30-year-old is coming off a year where he batted .264/.335/.429 with nine homers and 24 steals. He'll be the Padres' right fielder in 2013.











