The Cubs and Card Edwards Jr have Agreed to a One-Year Deal
Continuing the wave of contract agreements. The Chicago Cubs and Carl Edwards Jr have agreed to terms on a one-year deal avoiding salary arbitration.
Source: The Cubs and reliever Carl Edwards Jr. have settled on a one-year, $1.5 million contract, avoiding arbitration.
— Patrick Mooney (@PJ_Mooney) January 11, 2019
We have already spoken about the Kyle Hendricks, Kyle Schwarber, and Mike Montgomery contracts. The Cubs and Addison Russell had already announced a contract back in December.
We are now only awaiting news on Javier Baez and Kris Bryant, both of which are a bit more complicated. Bryant earned the largest first year arb eligible increase in baseball history when he and the Cubs agreed on a $10.85MM deal last season. It is expected that he signs a $12.4MM deal this year.
Baez is coming off a second place finish in NL MVP voting, and is expecing a large increase himself. He made $627,000 in 2018 and is expected to agree to a deal around $7.1MM.
