Newsmakers

Honored Paralympics bronze medalist Amy Purdy will drive the honorary pace car for Sunday’s Daytona 500. A winner in 2014 at the Sochi Paralympics, Purdy took up snowboarding at 15, contracted bacterial meningitis four years later and had her legs amputated just below the knee.

Awarded Pittsburgh third baseman Pedro Alvarez beat the Pirates in salary arbitration. Alvarez was awarded a $5.75 million salary. Pittsburgh argued for $5.25 million. Alvarez hit .231 with 18 homers and 56 RBIs last year.

• Arizona’s Mark Trumbo won his salary arbitration case and will get a $6.9 million salary this year instead of the team’s $5.3 million offer. Trumbo hit .235 with 14 homers and 61 RBIs last season, down from 34 homers and 100 RBIs the previous year.

Recovered New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka threw 21 pitches in his first bullpen session of the year at the Yankees’ minor league complex. Tanaka missed 21/2 months last year while rehabilitating a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. He returned for two late-September starts.

Agreed Former Seattle Mariners reliever David Aardsma agreed to a minor-league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers and will report to big-league spring training. Aardsma, 33, had 11 saves and a 1.29 ERA for Triple-A Memphis last season.

Announced Rangers second baseman Jurickson Profar, 22, could miss his second straight season to have right shoulder surgery, which he had tried to avoid through rest and rehabilitation. Profar, who played for the Spokane Indians in 2010, was told to stop playing in September for the third time since he aggravated a 2010 injury during spring training last year.

• San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy underwent a heart procedure to insert two stents. The Giants released a statement saying that the medical staff had been monitoring the manager’s heart after he experienced discomfort Wednesday.