{"id":5910,"date":"2014-01-12T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2014-01-12T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:46:00","slug":"cubs-and-samardzija-still-far-apart-in-contract-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/12\/cubs-and-samardzija-still-far-apart-in-contract-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs and Samardzija still far apart in contract talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1377\" alt=\"jeffsamardzija\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/jeffsamardzija.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/jeffsamardzija.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/jeffsamardzija-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs and pitcher Jeff Samardzija are still far apart from a new long-term deal reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csnchicago.com\/cubs\/next-moves-cubs-after-jumping-tanaka-sweepstakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CSN Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Samardzija is two years away from free agency so there is time for the Cubs but some believe if a new deal is not worked out soon that the pitcher may opt to close the Cubs out of future talks.<\/p>\n<p>Teams who have inquired about Samardzija from the Cubs have been told that the asking price is sky high.<\/p>\n<p>Samardzija, abotu to be 29, was pitched 213 2\/3 innings in 2013 with a 4.34 ERA and a 1.35 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs and pitcher Jeff Samardzija are still far apart from a new long-term deal reports CSN Chicago. Samardzija is two years away from free agency so there is time for the Cubs but some believe if a new deal is not worked out soon that the pitcher may opt to close the Cubs [&hellip;]<\/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":[153,201,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5910","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","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","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=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}