PHOENIX -- Mark Trumbo will have a new position this season, and with it an upgraded salary.
Trumbo, who will move from left field to right field, will play for $6.9 million in 2015 after an arbitrator on Wednesday ruled in his favor.
It was the Diamondbacks' first arbitration hearing in 13 years. The D-backs filed at $5.3 million.
"I am looking forward to a great year and a big improvement, both personally and team-wise, from last year," Trumbo said as pitchers and catchers reported to camp at Salt River Fields.
Trumbo slashed .235/.415/.707 with 14 home runs and 61 RBI in 88 games last season, his first with the D-backs. He missed almost three months with a stress fracture in his left foot, going on the disabled list April 22 after a hot start in which he had seven home runs and 19 RBI in 21 games.
His home run total was a career low, but his ratio of one RBI every 5.4 at-bats was a career-best. He averaged 32 homers and 94 RBI in his three full major league seasons with the Los Angeles Angels from 2011-13.
"It's not a process anybody wants to go through," D-backs general manager Dave Stewart said. "I don't think Mark wanted to go through it. We didn't. The process turns out the way it does. There is nothing personal about it. It's all about business. You leave it in the room and go from there."
The ruling sets the D-backs' 2015 payroll at about $93 million for the 40-man roster. The only players not under contract are those with less than four years major league service time. With few exceptions, most of them will make the major league minimum of $507,500, a figure that includes a cost of living adjustment from the $500,000 negotiated in the latest labor agreement.
Trumbo, 29, played exclusively in left field and at first base last season, moving to first after Paul Goldschmidt suffered a season-ending broken hand on July 31. Trumbo finished the season as he started, with five homers in his final seven games.
His was the D-backs' first arbitration hearing since 2001 with catcher Damian Miller. The D-backs lost that case as well.
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