{"id":5460,"date":"2013-12-05T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:35:28","slug":"report-jeff-samardzija-rejected-55-million-offer-from-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/05\/report-jeff-samardzija-rejected-55-million-offer-from-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jeff Samardzija rejected $55 million offer from Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2831\" alt=\"samard\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/samard.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/samard.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/samard-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs are listening to trade offers for starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija but they are not ruling out the option of re-signing the right hander either.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cubs beat writer Bruce Levine, the Cubs offered\u00a0Samardzija a contract that would have paid him $55 million over five years but when he spoke to Theo Epstein he was informed that &#8220;nothing has changed&#8221; in regards to contract progress.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Let me be clear ,Theo never mentioned any contract figure . Another source has indicted the Cub offer is higher than 5 yrs $55. Mil.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bruce Levine (@MLBBruceLevine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBBruceLevine\/statuses\/408752379136200704\">December 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Samardzija is under club control through 2015 and after a modest bump in salary though arbitration he could reach $10 million in time for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>With or without Samardzija the Cubs are not expected to contend in the NL Central this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs are listening to trade offers for starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija but they are not ruling out the option of re-signing the right hander either. According to Cubs beat writer Bruce Levine, the Cubs offered\u00a0Samardzija a contract that would have paid him $55 million over five years but when he spoke to Theo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460","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=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}