{"id":1376,"date":"2013-02-12T14:52:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T19:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2013-02-12T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T19:53:55","slug":"jeff-samardzija-turned-down-five-year-offer-from-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/12\/jeff-samardzija-turned-down-five-year-offer-from-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Samardzija turned down five-year offer from Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Chicago Cubs approached pitcher Jeff Samardzija about a contract extension this winter offering the right hander a five-year deal.<\/p>\n

After some talking Samardzija turned down the Cubs offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both want me to be here and both want me to be part of this team for a long time. When we feel like we\u2019re on the same page with that, we\u2019ll get it done.” Samardzija told<\/a> the Chicago Tribune.<\/p>\n

Samardzija believes \u201cit doesn\u2019t really make much sense\u201d to talk contract after one year in the rotation. With the escalating salaries of pitchers the 28-year-old could dramatically improve his future salaries with a productive 2013 season.<\/p>\n

“I still haven\u2019t proven myself to where I want to be as a player. I was happy last year\u00a0 but I don\u2019t want to stay there. I want to improve and get better.<\/p>\n

Samardzija went 9-13 with a 3.81 ERA last season in hi first year in the Cubs rotation. Samardzija is hopeful to top 200 innings this season after finishing with 174 2\/3 in 2012. He will earn $2.64 million this year and remains under team control though 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Cubs approached pitcher Jeff Samardzija about a contract extension this winter offering the right hander a five-year deal. After some talking Samardzija turned down the Cubs offer. \u201cWe both want me to be here and both want me to be part of this team for a long time. When we feel like we\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,201],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-jeff-samardzija"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}