The newly acquired starter reached an agreement with the White Sox, avoiding arbitration in the process.
Jeff Samardzija and the Chicago White Sox have come to an agreement on a one-year, $9.8 million deal to avoid a salary arbitration hearing, the team announced on Friday.
Samardzija is coming off the best performance of his career in a season split between the Cubs and the Athletics, and the one-year agreement will enable him to reach free agency at the end of the 2015 season. The right-hander made $5.345 million in 2014.
He was 7-13 with a 2.99 ERA in 33 starts in 2014, with 202 strikeouts and 43 walks in a career-high 219⅔ innings. The White Sox acquired Samardzija on Dec. 9 along with Michael Ynoa from Oakland in exchange for Marcus Semien, Josh Phegley, Chris Bassitt and Rangel Ravelo.
Posting a sub-3.00 ERA for the second time in his career, Samardzija eclipsed the 50 percent mark in his ground ball rate, and posted a strikeout rate three percent above league average. For all of this, he finds himself on his third team in the span of a year, presumably because PR people get tired of trying to spell his name.
Samardzija is expected to play second fiddle to Chris Sale on a White Sox team that anticipates contending following the additions of Adam LaRoche, Melky Cabrera and David Roberston this offseason.
Chicago also avoided arbitration with Tyler Flowers, signing the catcher for $2.675 million for 2015.
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