Today is the final day for arbitration-eligible players to make a deal for 2025, otherwise they will submit a salary request at the end of the day, and the team will submit their own number. Then, at an arbitration hearing next month, a panel will decide whose number wins. Teams and players like to avoid the ugliness that can accompany those hearings, so that’s why they like to have deals done by today. (Further, the sides could keep negotiating tomorrow, but teams generally go for a “file and trial” strategy – if you file today, then the team will cut off negotiations – in order to pressure players to sign by today.)
For the Chicago Cubs, the remaining unsigned arbitration-eligible players are Justin Steele, Kyle Tucker, and Nate Pearson. I’ve seen Eli Morgan mentioned as another, but I thought I’d read earlier this offseason that he and the Cubs had avoided arbitration for an undisclosed sum. Maybe I’m misremembering. If so, you can add him to the list today, too.
Up first, Nate Pearson and the Cubs settle:
Per @feinsand.bsky.social: Nate Pearson and the Cubs have settled on a $1.35 million deal for 2025, per source, avoiding arbitration.
— Jordan Bastian (@bastianmlb.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 12:59 PMPearson, 28, is a former top pitching prospect who came over to the Cubs in a midseason trade last year, and went on to pitch very well out of the bullpen. He projects as an important arm in 2025, whether as a reliever or an unlikely (but plausible) starter conversion. That settlement figure is a touch below MLBTR’s projection of $1.4 million.
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