Seattle’s Alvin Davis and five other major...

Seattle’s Alvin Davis and five other major league baseball players avoided arbitration by agreeing to new contracts, and free agent Neil Allen found a new team.

Davis agreed to a 3-year, $4.45-million contract with the Mariners, and Allen agreed to a 1-year contract with the Cleveland Indians worth $325,000.

Shawon Dunston and Al Nipper of the Chicago Cubs, Zane Smith of the Atlanta Braves, John Cerutti of the Toronto Blue Jays and Edwin Nunez of the New York Mets, all of whom had filed for arbitration, agreed to 1-year contracts.

Davis, who made $922,500 in 1988, will get $1.25 million in 1989, $1.425 million in 1990 and $1.725 million in 1991. He batted .295 last season with 18 home runs and 69 runs batted in.

Allen was 5-3 last season for the Yankees with a 3.84 earned-run average and made $250,000. New York did not want him back. With Cleveland, he can earn $75,000 in performance bonuses.