The Los Angeles Dodgers will travel to Taiwan in March for a pair of exhibition games against a team from the Chinese Professional Baseball League.

The Dodgers' two-game set March 13-14 will not be part of the official spring training schedule, which Los Angeles begins March 5 against the Chicago White Sox.

The Dodgers were the first big league club to play in Taiwan in 1993, when they competed against a team of Chinese all-stars. They also played the San Diego Padres in two spring training games in Beijing in March 2008, the first major league games played in China.

That year, the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics opened the regular season with two games in Tokyo.

Astros: : All-Star outfielder Hunter Pence and Houston agreed to a one-year, $3.5 million contract, more than seven times his $464,000 salary last season.

The 26-year-old was eligible for arbitration for the first time after hitting .282 with 25 homers and 72 RBIs. He led major league outfielders with 16 assists.

Pence's agreement Saturday was $100,000 under the midpoint of the $4.1 million he had asked for in arbitration and the $3.1 million he had been offered.