{"id":10621,"date":"2016-01-15T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10621"},"modified":"2016-01-15T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T03:28:10","slug":"jake-arrieta-and-cubs-far-apart-on-arbitration-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/15\/jake-arrieta-and-cubs-far-apart-on-arbitration-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Arrieta and Cubs far apart on arbitration figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10622\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/jakearrieta.jpg\" alt=\"jakearrieta\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/jakearrieta.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/jakearrieta-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Cubs and pitcher Jake Arrieta exchanged arbitration figures on Friday and there is a sizable gap between the two numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Arrieta, 29, is coming off a Cy Young season and asked the Cubs for $13 million. Meanwhile the Cubs offered the 22 game winner just $7.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of work to do should the Cubs and Arrieta want to avoid going to arbitration. The pitcher was projected to make $10.4 million in arbitration according to MLBTradeRumors.com which is the midpoint of the two numbers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: Jake Arrieta filed at $13M and the Cubs at $7.5M. By far the biggest gap this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/688121574575058945\">January 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nBack in November Arrieta said he saw contract extension talks as inevitable but thus far there has not been more than a whisper in regards to a new deal. Perhaps more is going on behind the scenes or this may spur the two sides to ramp up talks.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Cubs in 2013, Arrieta is 36-13 with a 2.26 ERA across 437 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs and pitcher Jake Arrieta exchanged arbitration figures on Friday and there is a sizable gap between the two numbers. Arrieta, 29, is coming off a Cy Young season and asked the Cubs for $13 million. Meanwhile the Cubs offered the 22 game winner just $7.5 million. There is a lot of work to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,721,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-jake-arrieta","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10621"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}