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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Pitcher Edwin Uceta and the Tampa Bay Rays argued the first salary arbitration case of the year Thursday, with the 28-year-old right-hander asking for $1,525,000 and the team arguing for $1.2 million.<\/p>\n

A decision by the panel of Janice Johnston, Alan Ponak and Melinda Gordon will be held until other cases are decided or resolved.<\/p>\n

Uceta was eligible for arbitration for the first time after going 10-3 with a 3.79 ERA in 70 relief appearances last year. He was a so-called Super Two, eligible because he has 2 years, 150 days of major league service \u2014 10 days above the cutoff for this year\u2019s arbitration class.<\/p>\n

Fourteen players remain scheduled for hearings, which run through through Feb. 13 in Scottsdale, Arizona.<\/p>\n

In the most prominent case, two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal asked for a record $32 million<\/a>, while the Detroit Tigers offered the left-hander $19 million.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Pitcher Edwin Uceta and the Tampa Bay Rays argued the first salary arbitration case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[72043,146,653,5,53,6925,4290,182,22200,44099,4,256,297,70356,185,2550,68,2551,2549,382],"class_list":["post-545455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-alan-ponak","tag-arizona","tag-az-state-wire","tag-baseball","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-janice-johnston","tag-melinda-gordon","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-rays","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-tarik-skubal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115982728314088718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}