Vogelsong, Giants agree to 1-year deal

SAN FRANCISCO — Ryan Vogelsong is staying put with the San Francisco Giants, reaching agreement on a one-year contract Friday.

Assistant general manager Bobby Evans says the deal is pending a physical, expected to happen later next week.

The Giants declined to exercise Vogelsong’s $6.5 million option for 2014 on Nov. 4, but the parties agreed to keep open the possibility of potential negotiations down the road.

Vogelsong went 4-6 with a 5.73 ERA in 19 starts and 103 2-3 innings during an injury-shortened season. He broke two bones in the right pinkie area of his pitching hand and also dislocated a knuckle on a swing May 20 and underwent surgery the next day. He had five pins inserted in his hand.

Vogelsong won 13 and 14 games the previous two seasons. The journeyman pitcher became one of baseball’s feel-good comeback stories in 2011, when he made the All-Star team after joining the Giants’ rotation first as a fill-in for the injured Barry Zito.

Vogelsong won three games during the 2012 postseason for the eventual World Series champion Giants, including one during a 4-0 sweep of the Tigers for the team’s second championship in three years.

Lefty Lilly retiring after 15 seasons

OAKLAND, Calif. — Ted Lilly is retiring after 15 seasons because of a troublesome shoulder and back.

The 37-year-old left-hander is a two-time All-Star who pitched for Montreal, Oakland, Toronto, the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs and Dodgers. For his career, he had a 130-113 record with a 4.14 ERA.

Lilly recently went to winter ball in Venezuela, hoping to strengthen himself and land a job in the majors in 2014. Instead, he experienced further problems.

He made one three-inning appearance in Valencia and would have pitched again but got food poisoning. He returned home to California on Wednesday night. He now expects to coach, at the youth level at first.

By wire sources