{"id":546097,"date":"2026-01-30T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/546097\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:29:17","slug":"pitcher-edwin-uceta-and-tampa-bay-rays-go-to-arbitration-with-325000-gap-in-first-case-of-year-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/546097\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitcher Edwin Uceta and Tampa Bay Rays go to arbitration with $325,000 gap in first case of year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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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’s 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

The Associated Press<\/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":546098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2377],"tags":[72043,17431,5,6925,22200,44099,4,297,52584,2550,68,2551,2549,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-546097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-alan-ponak","9":"tag-arbitration","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-edwin-uceta","12":"tag-janice-johnston","13":"tag-melinda-gordon","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-rays","16":"tag-salary-arbitration","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabayrays","21":"tag-tarik-skubal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115985001236787639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546097","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=546097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}